{"id":77008,"date":"2026-04-12T01:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/11\/us-iran-talks-peace-deal-islamabad-pakistan"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:43:09","slug":"us-and-iran-hold-talks-in-islamabad-as-pakistan-seeks-to-broker-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77008","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran hold talks in Islamabad as Pakistan seeks to broker peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance leads American delegation while Iran\u2019s negotiators headed up by Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran\">Iran<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> began in Islamabad this afternoon, with senior negotiators from both countries meeting face to face at the highest level for the first time since 1979, in the presence of mediators from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani state TV said US and Iranian officials were \u201csitting directly at the same table\u201d \u2013 which was later confirmed by the White House \u2013 and discussions were beginning in a positive atmosphere, despite fighting continuing in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/11\/us-iran-talks-peace-deal-islamabad-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance leads American delegation while Iran\u2019s negotiators headed up by Iran\u2019s parliamentary speakerPeace talks between Iran and the US began in Islamabad this afternoon, with senior negotiators from both countries meeting face to face at the highest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5253,"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":[448,3285,869,212,60,554,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-jd-vance","category-lebanon","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\/77008","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\/5253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77010,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77008\/revisions\/77010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}