The vice president of the United States, James David VanceI was going to travel to Pakistan during this Tuesday morning April 21but decided to delay his departure, without setting a new date, while uncertainty increases over whether the second round of talks with the regime will be held. Iranian to end the war in Middle East.
According to what was stated by the American newspaper The New York Times, JD Vance was scheduled to leave Washington D.C. bound for the city of Islamabadbut the Islamic Republic of Iran has not yet committed to sending a delegation to the Pakistani capitalso the US vice president preferred to stay in the country.
Vance led the negotiations last Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12 in Islamabad, which concluded no agreementso he would travel again to the capital of Pakistan accompanied by Steve Wikoff, special envoy of the White House, as well as the politician and businessman Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the president of the United States, Donald trump.
The main objective of the Republican president in the negotiations is for Iran to renounce the enrichment of uranium already obtaining a nuclear weapon, even though authorities in Tehran have maintained that their program atomic It has peaceful and scientific purposes, so a new failure is expected in the second round of negotiations.
When does the truce end?
The two-week ceasefire was announced by President Donald Trump at 6:30 p.m. April 7. However, the White House has not clarified whether the truce ends at 6:30 p.m. this Tuesday April 21 oa midnightso Vice President JD Vance plans to participate in meetings in Washington DC to define it.
According to the American television network cnnthe Republican president has slipped in various statements that the deadline could end on Wednesday 22 April, something that official Pakistani sources also point to, as the country hosting the negotiations. In any case, this Tuesday is the last official day of the ceasefire.
For its part, the Government of Pakistan stated that it continues to wait for a formal confirmation of attendance by the Iranian delegation, given that President Donald Trump declared that No wants to extend the truce if there is no other agreement, which is why various international media predict a second failure in these negotiations.
Faced with this situation, the Iranian Army reported that it is prepared to respond decisively to any rape of the ceasefire by the United States Government, after US forces captured an Iranian ship in the Arabian Seamore than 2 thousand kilometers from the ports sanctioned by Donald Trump.
Will talks resume?
Both parties (the United States and Iran) have so far failed to reach an agreement for free movement in the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for the global crude oil trade that provides the only maritime passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and that the authorities in Tehran they blocked in retaliation for the offensive from USA
Additionally, the United States Army maintains a naval blockade against Iran, and US forces announced during the morning of this Tuesday, April 21, that they intercepted a tanker ship in the Indo-Pacific linked to the Islamic republic, so everything seems to be about to end. break again in the region.