US EditionUS, Iran leave door open to dialogue after tense Islamabad talks
Officials said the sides came 80% close to a framework understanding before disputes over nuclear limits, sanctions and Hormuz halted progress.
- On Sunday, United States and Iran officials concluded their highest-level talks in decades at Islamabad's Serena Hotel without a formal agreement, though sources confirmed the diplomatic channel remains open.
- This weekend meeting, the first direct encounter since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, aimed to chart a long-term settlement following a Pakistan-brokered ceasefire that paused six weeks of war.
- Negotiators endured a tense, 20-hour session with 11 sources indicating parties were '80% there' before stalling over nuclear enrichment, Hormuz Strait control, and frozen assets.
- President Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran 'called this morning' and that 'they'd like to work a deal,' while Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pledged a 'full effort' to resolve issues.
- While dialogue persists, core disputes over Iran's nuclear programme and regional security remain unresolved, leaving global energy markets and shipping sectors facing ongoing sanctions uncertainty and maritime disruptions.
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The meeting at the end of the week to resolve the conflict between the US and Iran, held four days after the announcement of the last three-day ceasefire, was the first direct meeting between the North American and Iranian authorities in more than a decade.
US, Iran leave door open to dialogue after tense Islamabad talks
After a sleepless and at times tense night in Islamabad, Iranian and U.S. officials ended their highest-level talks in decades without a breakthrough, but 11 sources familiar with the negotiations said dialogue was still alive.
The meeting on the weekend, organized four days after the announcement of the amnesty, was the first direct contact to this level between the US and Iran after better ten years and the most important of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In the Serbian luxury hotel in Islamabad, discussions took place in two separate trees and a common area, one for the US delegation, one for Iranians and one for trilateral meetings with Pakistani mediators, accord…
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