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ISLAMABAD: U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Pakistan on Saturday to hold peace talks with Iran, a Pakistani source told Reuters . U.S. President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire in the six-week war on Tuesday, just hours before a deadline after which Trump had threatened to destroy Iran’s civilisation. The ceasefire has halted U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran. But it has not ended Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or calmed a parallel war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. On Friday, Iran’s negotiating team arrived in Islamabad for peace talks with the United States. Vance expects positive talks with Iran as US VP leaves for Pakistan JD Vance, who will lead the U.S. delegation, said he expected a positive outcome as he headed to Pakistan, but added: “If they’re going to try to play us, then they’re going to find the negotiating team is not that receptive.” Iran has been unable to obtain tens of billions of dollars of its assets in foreign banks, mainly from exports of oil and gas, due to U.S. sanctions on its banking and energy sectors. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a national address on Friday night, laid out the stakes of the talks. “The permanent ceasefire is the next difficult phase, which is to resolve the complicated issues through negotiation. This, as called in English, is a make-or-break phase,” Sharif said.
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