{"id":77089,"date":"2026-04-21T03:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/20\/jd-vance-to-lead-us-delegation-in-pakistan-if-iran-agrees-to-talks"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:30:56","slug":"jd-vance-to-lead-us-delegation-in-pakistan-if-iran-agrees-to-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77089","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance to lead US delegation in Pakistan if Iran agrees to talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US vice-president to travel to Islamabad with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as deadline for current ceasefire looms<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/21\/iran-war-live-news-updates-trump-us-hormuz-oil-middle-east-talks#maincontent\">Middle east crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/20\/pakistan-global-standing-mediator-us-iran-talks-middle-east\">Pakistan seeks to raise its global standing in push for Middle East peace<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>JD Vance is expected to fly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/20\/pakistan-global-standing-mediator-us-iran-talks-middle-east\">Islamabad<\/a> at the head of a US diplomatic delegation on Tuesday if Iran agrees to further talks in the Pakistani capital as the deadline for the current ceasefire looms.<\/p>\n<p>The US vice-president will travel with Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president\u2019s son-in-law \u2013 though Iran\u2019s president warned there remained a \u201cdeep historical mistrust\u201d of the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/20\/jd-vance-to-lead-us-delegation-in-pakistan-if-iran-agrees-to-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US vice-president to travel to Islamabad with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as deadline for current ceasefire loomsMiddle east crisis \u2013 live updatesPakistan seeks to raise its global standing in push for Middle East peaceJD Vance is expected to fly t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5268,"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":[448,212,60,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","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\/77089","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\/5268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77102,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77089\/revisions\/77102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}