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key delegations were due to arrive on Thursday night and Friday morning. On the US side, the White House confirmed their negotiating team would be led by vice-president JD Vance, with special envoys Steve
ceasefire reached on April 8 by attacking the southern province of Hormozgan on Monday night. It added that the strikes validated the “deep suspicion” Iran harboured towards the US. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC
ceasefire talks, writing on social media early Wednesday, there would be “[NO MORE MR. NICE GUY](/news/2026/4/29/no-more-mr-nice-guy-trump-threatens-iran-to-get-smart-in-peace-talks)“. Here are some key moments from Hegseth’s hearing. ## $25-billion pricetag Speaking alongside Hegseth, Jules Hurst
figures at the table led indirect talks before the conflict, another key Iranian negotiator has been permanently silenced. ## The absent negotiator Just weeks before the war broke out, [Ali Larijani](/features/2026/3/3/who-is-ali-larijani-the-iranian-official-promising-a-lesson-to-the-us), the secretary of Iran
key US objective of preventing Iran from manufacturing or having a nuclear weapon. In Lebanon, however, those interests slightly diverge, with Israel vowing to target the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia even as US-Iran talks
key figures in Iran, and are they ‘fractured’ over talks with the US? ### Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Khamenei is the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli
ceasefire extension. Dar also met the ambassador from China, a key trading partner with Iran. “Pakistan has made sincere efforts to convince the Iranian leadership to participate in the second round of talks and these
key sticking point in negotiations between the US and Iran has been the future of the strait. Iranian officials insist that any agreement with Washington must grant Tehran sovereignty over the waterway – a demand rejected
ceasefire as a prerequisite – similar to the Iran and US talks brokered by [Pakistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan) – but Israel has framed the talks as peace negotiations with Hezbollah’s disarmament as a priority, with
ceasefire. Hassan Ahmadian, an associate professor of west Asian studies at the University of Tehran, denies there are any fractures in the country’s leadership. “The Iranian political system is very institutionalised. Name another system
key role in Iran talks presents him with a thorny predicament As a man who wears his Christian beliefs on his sleeve, [JD Vance](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jd-vance) is no doubt acutely conscious of Jesus Christ
key enrichment facilities, to start enriching again. In the 2015 talks Obama conceded Iran could enrich for 15 years, but only at the level of purity required for a civilian nuclear programme – 3.67%. The agreement
figure in Pakistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/asim-munir-pakistan-army-chief) and has good relations with Trump, who has called him his “favourite field marshal”, and with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. A Pakistani official said on Tuesday that he expected
ceasefire reached in early April. Israeli media reported online that an explosion on Sunday night in an apartment building in Tehran’s Andisheh was a targeted assassination of an IRGC general, but the Iranian media
key hurdle before any second round of talks was “whether the US is willing to ease pressure enough to make diplomacy credible and whether Iran is willing to curb its leverage enough to keep talks
us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago and today," Trump said in a social media post. "Where they lead, one never knows
figures from Lebanon’s Health Ministry. More than one-million people have been displaced from their homes as Israel has occupied nearly one-fifth of the country. Although a US-mediated ceasefire aimed at halting
Iran on February 28, killing more than 2,000 people so far. A ceasefire was signed last week; diplomatic efforts are under way to end the war. Trump has also frozen foreign assistance to South
ceasefire agreement. “If we pay more attention to what President Trump does rather than what he says, then a ground invasion is quite likely,” said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis
key Iranian demand, hopes were raised that the United States and Iran could resume talks in the coming days aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war in the Middle East