“Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership,'” he wrote on Truth Social. “Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!”Speaking to Fox News, Trump said: “I’ve told my people… ‘Nope, you’re not making an 18-hour flight to go there… We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”
Trump further told the Axios news site that this didn’t necessarily mean the war was restarting. “It doesn’t mean that,” he said in response to a question from the outlet. “We haven’t thought about it yet.” Earlier in the day, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi laid out Iran’s demands and its reservations about US positions in Islamabad, as Pakistan made a new push to end a war that has killed thousands and shaken global energy markets.
After holding talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other top officials, Araghchi and his delegation departed Pakistan’s capital with a military jet escort, government sources said. Details of the talks were scant. Araghchi said it remained to be seen whether the United States was “truly serious” about diplomacy. In a post on X, he said he had “shared Iran’s position concerning [a] workable framework to permanently end the war.” (Ed note: While Iran wants the US to get “truly serious” about the negotiations, they will not give up their right to "peaceful nuclear technology" which are "non-negotiable rights" to annihilate Israel.) (Read More)
