Mediator Pakistan has yet to receive a formal response from Iran on whether it would send a delegation for a second round of talks with the United States, Islamabad’s information minister said Tuesday.
“Formal response from Iranian side about confirmation of delegation to attend Islamabad Peace Talks is still awaited,” Minister Attaullah Tarar posted on X, saying that a decision was “critical” as just hours remained until the two-week ceasefire struck between the warring sides expires.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he did not want to extend the ceasefire in the US-Israeli war on Iran and that the US military was “raring to go” if negotiations were not successful.
Washington has expressed confidence that last-ditch talks with Iran will go ahead in Pakistan, and a senior Iranian official said Tehran was considering joining. But with the final hours of a two-week truce ticking by, there was little time left.
Asked about the possibility of extending the truce, Trump told CNBC: “I don’t want to do that. We don’t have that much time.”
“I expect to be bombing because I think that’s a better attitude to go in with,” he added. “But we’re ready to go. I mean, the military is raring to go.”
Pakistani officials said that if the delegations do attend talks, they will not arrive until Wednesday.
A first session of talks 10 days ago produced no agreement and Tehran had been ruling out a second round after the US refused to end its blockade and seized an Iranian cargo ship. Trump has threatened to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure if no deal is done.
