{"id":76814,"date":"2026-03-24T23:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/pakistan-army-chief-iran-peace-talks-trump-call"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:41:24","slug":"jd-vance-role-touted-as-pakistan-attempts-to-broker-us-iran-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76814","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance role touted as Pakistan attempts to broker US-Iran peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic sources say negotiations may begin in Islamabad next week, though no formal agreement is in place<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/24\/iran-war-live-updates-trump-ursula-von-der-leyen-oil-prices-energy-crisis-israel-strikes\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, says his country is ready to \u201cfacilitate meaningful and conclusive talks\u201d to end the war in the Middle East amid attempts to push Islamabad as a possible venue for negotiations between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani sources said the US vice-president, JD Vance, was being put forward as a probable chief negotiator from the US side if talks went ahead. Iranian sources have said they would refuse to sit down with Trump\u2019s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, or Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/17\/uk-security-adviser-attended-us-iran-talks-and-judged-deal-was-within-reach\">nuclear negotiations with Iran before the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/24\/pakistan-army-chief-iran-peace-talks-trump-call\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomatic sources say negotiations may begin in Islamabad next week, though no formal agreement is in placeMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesPakistan\u2019s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, says his country is ready to \u201cfacilitate meaningful and conclusive t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,3285,212,60,554,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-jd-vance","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76840,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76814\/revisions\/76840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}