{"id":47258,"date":"2026-04-11T03:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47258"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:18:06","slug":"jd-vance-warns-iran-against-trying-to-play-the-us-in-peace-talks-us-israel-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47258","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance warns Iran against trying to \u2018play\u2019 the US in peace talks | US-Israel war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"


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JD Vance<\/a> has warned Iran not to \u201ctry and play\u201d the US at talks planned for Saturday in Islamabad, while Tehran said it would not take part until Israel stopped bombing of Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The US vice-president made the comments as he boarded a plane to Pakistan<\/a> for negotiations that could determine whether a ceasefire holds or the war on Iran resumes with grave implications for the global economy.<\/p>\n

With hours to go before the talks were scheduled to start, doubts remained as to whether they actually would.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it was announced Friday that Lebanon<\/a> and Israel had agreed to meet in Washington DC on Tuesday to discuss a ceasefire and to set a date to begin talks. The date of the meeting was set during a phone call between Lebanon\u2019s ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadeh Mouawad; Israel\u2019s ambassador to the US, Yehiel Leiter; and the US ambassador to Lebanon, Michael Issa. The conversation on Tuesday will be mediated by the US and take place at the state department.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker and the co-leader of the country\u2019s delegation, said on X on Friday<\/a>: \u201cTwo of the measures mutually agreed upon between the parties have yet to be implemented: a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of Iran\u2019s blocked assets prior to the commencement of negotiations. These two matters must be fulfilled before negotiations begin.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was unclear on Friday evening whether Qalibaf and Abbas Araghchi, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, were still planning to fly to Islamabad to lead their delegation. It was reported last month that Israel<\/a> had taken Qalibaf and Araghchi off the target list of its bombing campaign at Washington\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker, is expected to co-lead the Iranian delegation at the peace talks in Islamabad.<\/span> Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Donald Trump fuelled the uncertainty by saying US forces were rearming and ready to return to the attack if the negotiations failed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a reset going. We\u2019re loading up the ships with the best ammunition, the best weapons ever made \u2013 even better than what we did previously and we blew them apart,\u201d the US president told the New York Post<\/a>. \u201cAnd if we don\u2019t have a deal, we will be using them, and we will be using them very effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later on Friday, Trump followed up his threats with a post on his own social media site declaring: \u201cThe Iranians don\u2019t seem to realize they have no cards, other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways. The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Iranians and the Pakistani mediators say the two-week ceasefire agreement struck by the US and Iran on the night of 7 April included Lebanon. Trump and Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, say this is not the case, and Israel has continued to bomb Lebanon in its offensive against Hezbollah, Iran\u2019s closest ally in the region, even after Netanyahu said he was ready to start peace talks with the Lebanese government.<\/p>\n

More than 300 Lebanese citizens have been killed by Israeli bombing since the ceasefire started. The country\u2019s president, Joseph Aoun, said on Friday that 13 state security personnel had been killed in an Israeli strike on a government building in the southern city of Nabatieh.<\/p>\n

Trump has accused Iran of doing a \u201cvery poor job\u201d of allowing oil to go through the strait, adding in an overnight social media post: \u201cThat is not the agreement we have!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The oil price spike caused by the US-Israeli attack on Iran on 28 February, and Iran\u2019s response by closing the strait of Hormuz to oil tankers and other shipping, is a direct political threat to the president before congressional elections in November.<\/p>\n

Despite the uncertain outlook for the ceasefire, Vance\u2019s tone was generally optimistic as he boarded Air Force Two. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to the negotiation. I think it\u2019s going to be positive,\u201d Vance said. \u201cIf the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we\u2019re certainly willing to extend the open hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he added: \u201cIf they\u2019re going to try and play us, then they\u2019re going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s all-purpose international negotiator, Steve Witkoff, was also expected to be in the US delegation, as was the president\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Witkoff and Kushner took part in talks with Iranian negotiators prior to the US-Israeli attack, which had been focused on Iran\u2019s nuclear and missile programmes.<\/p>\n

The Omani mediators of those talks, as well as UK government observers, believed meaningful progress had been made and were expecting another round of negotiations when the US and Israel launched their surprise attack on 28 February.<\/p>\n

After more than five weeks of bombing, the campaign has killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, but failed to dislodge the Islamic regime in Tehran. It has also inflicted heavy losses on Iran\u2019s armed forces but they were still able to threaten shipping in the Hormuz strait and cut off the flow of a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and liquified fossil gas.<\/p>\n

The Islamabad talks are expected to focus on the reopening of the strait, as well as the future of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme and the prospect of sanctions relief. Iran says it will also demand reparations for war damage. According to the Washington Post<\/a>, Vance\u2019s delegation intends to demand the release of Americans detained in Iran.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>A billboard in Islamabad to promote the peace talks between the US and Iran mediated by Pakistan.<\/span> Photograph: Waseem Khan\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Advance teams from the US and Iran reportedly began to take up rooms on Friday in the five-star Serena hotel in central Islamabad, with Pakistani officials relaying messages between the two camps. Officials from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were also arriving to represent their interests.<\/p>\n

A 2-mile (3km) security perimeter was set up around the hotel by Pakistani security services, the city centre was locked down and a public holiday declared for Pakistan\u2019s highest-level mediation effort on the world stage in recent times.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah did not comment on news of the direct negotiations between the Lebanese and Israeli government, despite the group\u2019s historical opposition to any contact with Israel. The head of the armed group, Naim Qassem, in a written statement published on Friday afternoon, called on the Lebanese government to \u201ccease making gratuitous concessions\u201d, without making explicit mention of the negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not accept a return to the status quo, and we call upon those in authority to cease making gratuitous concessions,\u201d Qassem said, vowing to keep fighting and to \u201cexpel the occupier\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese army deployed additional soldiers across Beirut, with a strong presence by the prime minister\u2019s office, as the government sought to implement its decision to allow no arms outside state control in the country\u2019s capital city. The decision was taken after Israel\u2019s attack on Wednesday which left at least 303 people dead.<\/p>\n

Fighting has continued in south Lebanon despite the upcoming negotiations and Hezbollah claimed to have struck Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil.<\/p>\n

Bint Jbeil carries historical and strategic significance because Hezbollah managed to keep Israeli forces out of the town in the 2006 war \u2013 earning it the moniker of the \u201ccapital of resistance\u201d. The area is also key to controlling the central area of southern Lebanon because it sits at the crossroads of neighbouring towns and hills.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah launched volleys of rockets at Israel throughout Friday.<\/p>\n

Israel carried out airstrikes across Lebanon, killing 13 government security officers in an attack near the provincial government\u2019s headquarters in Nabatieh, according to Lebanon\u2019s state security agency. It was the highest number of Lebanese security forces killed by Israel so far.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s government is not a party to the Hezbollah-Israel war but Israeli strikes have killed Lebanese soldiers over the course of the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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