US and Iranian negotiating teams may return to Islamabad this week for another round of talks, four sources told Reuters, just days after the highest-level talks between the two countries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ended.
Pakistani officials told The Associated Press that the country had offered to host the second round even before the ceasefire ended, with one official stressing that although the first talks ended without an agreement, they were part of an ongoing diplomatic process rather than a one-off effort.
In an interview with Fox News, Vice President JD Vance said progress had been made on the US demand to remove nuclear material from Iran and create a mechanism to ensure uranium would not be enriched in the future.
He said the Iranians had "moved toward us," and suggested the Iranian negotiating team had not been authorized to "cut deals" without approval from Tehran. Vance added that President Donald Trump would like to see Iran behave like "a normal country" with a functioning economy, and concluded: "I think there is a grand deal to be made here, but it's up to the Iranians to take the next step."
