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U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, and Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister were involved in overnight ceasefire talks that would see a two-stage agreement announced as soon as today, a report claims.<\/p>\n
Washington and Tehran are considering an agreement\u00a0to be signed today that would begin an immediate ceasefire ahead of in-person talks for a later comprehensive agreement,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/a>reports<\/span>. While Reuters cited only a single unnamed \u201csource,\u201d since the publication of its report, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has said it indeed received the text of a proposed ceasefire negotiated through the mediator, the Pakistani Army, lending credence to the wire service\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n According to the report, U.S. Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump\u2019s ubiquitous peace envoy Steve Witkoff were in overnight talks held by the head of the Pakistani Army\u00a0Field Marshal Asim Munir, with the Iranian\u00a0Foreign Minister\u00a0Abbas Aragchi, one of the few surviving members of the Iranian pre-war government, after weeks of \u201cdecapitation\u201d strikes. It is stated that the agreement is intended to proceed in two stages: an immediate ceasefire, should the parties agree, followed by talks on a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d peace agreement in the Middle East.<\/p>\n