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Trump later suggests that next talks will be over phone, saying \u2018If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 25 Apr 2026<\/span>25 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n United States President Donald Trump has announced that his envoys would not be travelling to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials after Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left the country.<\/p>\n The US president told news outlet Fox News that he had ordered Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to ditch plans to visit the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, for the possible talks, despite his earlier claims that Iran was \u201cmaking an offer\u201d aimed at resolving the two-month conflict.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Nope, you\u2019re not making an 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you\u2019re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n In any case, Araghchi had already departed Islamabad, the first destination of a three-leg tour including Oman and Russia. Iran\u2019s state-run Press TV confirmed he left on Saturday after meeting Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.<\/p>\n Posting on X, Araghchi said he had shared \u201cIran\u2019s position concerning workable framework to permanently end the war on Iran\u201d with Pakistani officials. \u201cHave yet to see if the U.S. is truly serious about diplomacy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Later, Trump appeared to say on social media that any future talks would be taking place over the phone. \u201cIf they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!\u201d he wrote, adding that nobody knew who was in charge in Iran and that there was \u201ctremendous infighting and confusion within their \u2018leadership\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n Reporting from Washington, Al Jazeera\u2019s Rosiland Jordan said Trump\u2019s comments suggested that the US did not see \u201cany yielding on the Iranians part\u201d.<\/p>\n She said that his talk of holding \u201call the cards\u201d appeared to allude to \u201cthe US naval blockade, as well as the ongoing presence of more than 50,000 troops in the region, ready to resume combat operations\u201d.<\/p>\n The pressure to strike a deal to permanently end the war has mounted amid an ongoing standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, through which approximately one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments transit.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Saturday that they had no intention of ending their effective blocking of the waterway, which has thrown energy markets into turmoil, according to the news agency AFP.<\/p>\n Asked by US media outlet Axios whether the cancelled trip by his envoys meant a resumption of hostilities, Trump said: \u201cNo. It doesn\u2019t mean that. We haven\u2019t thought about it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Araghchi had arrived in Muscat on Saturday for meetings with Omani officials. He is also expected to travel on to Russia to discuss efforts to end the war, which the United States and Israel began against Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump later suggests that next talks will be over phone, saying \u2018If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!\u2019 Published On 25 Apr 202625 Apr 2026 United States President Donald Trump has announced that his envoys would not be travelling to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials after Foreign Minister Abbas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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