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US Vice President JD Vance will lead the US delegation for talks with Iran in Pakistan, a White House official said on Sunday.
It comes after Mr Trump announced he was sending negotiators to Islamabad for meetings with Tehran about ending the conflict in the Middle East, with a ceasefire soon set to expire.
Mr Vance – who led the last round of failed talks with Tehran in Islamabad, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will attend the talks, a White House official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Mr Trump earlier accused Iran of a “Total Violation” of the countries’ two-week ceasefire with attacks Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz – and threatened to destroy its power plants and bridges if no deal is reached.
The US president said on his Truth Social platform that he was offering Iran “a reasonable deal” and if Tehran refuses, “the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” “
They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years,” he wrote.
The Strait of Hormuz remained closed on Sunday amid the stand-off.
Iran on Saturday declared it shut again to shipping – one day after saying it would reopen the strategic waterway.
A UK maritime security agency said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had fired at one tanker on Saturday, while security intelligence firm Vanguard Tech reported the force had threatened to “destroy” an empty cruise ship that was fleeing The Gulf.
In the third incident, the UK agency said it received a report of a vessel “being hit by an unknown projectile, which caused damage” to shipping containers but no fire.
The US-Iran ceasefire is scheduled to end on Wednesday.
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