ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that Pakistan-mediated talks in Islamabad “went well” and achieved agreement on most issues; however, he stressed that no progress was made on the nuclear question.
His statement comes following a direct talk between the United States and Iran — known as the Islamabad Talks — ended without an agreement today.
Trump said he had been fully debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the meeting held in Islamabad, which he said occurred under the leadership of Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir.
“I have been fully debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, on the meeting that took place in Islamabad through the kind and very competent leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan,” Trump stated.
“most points were agreed to” during intensive talks lasting nearly 20 hours, but added that the “only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not,” Trump said in a series of posts on his Truth Social platform.
The US president added “the main obstacle to an agreement remained Iran’s nuclear programme.” He said Tehran was unwilling to abandon what he called its “nuclear ambitions.”
“I predict they [will] come back, and they give us everything we want — and I told my people, I want everything. I don’t want 90 per cent, I don’t want 95pc. I told them, I want everything. They have no cards,” he said during a phone interview on the Fox News show ‘Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo’.
He also reiterated his threat to destroy Iran’s power plants and other civilian energy infrastructure if no deal was reached to end the conflict in the Middle East, which began with the US and Israel launching strikes on Iran on February 28.
Delegations from the two sides, with Ghalibaf leading the Iranian side and US Vice President JD Vance leading Washington’s effort, had met in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Saturday for talks mediated by Pakistan; however, the parties concluded without reaching any agreement.
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