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While talks are expected to begin in Islamabad between the American and Iranian delegations, the conflict in the Middle East continues.
The US delegation is led by Vice President JD Vance, and includes President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The Iranian delegation had arrived earlier.
About 100 members of a US advance team are already in the city, a Pakistani source told Reuters.
The meeting is the first since the outbreak of war more than a month ago. Both sides have demanded conditions before negotiations can begin, with Iran demanding an end to Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the United States concerned about nuclear weapons and the fate of transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
According to maritime traffic data, only 14 ships, half of which were loaded, have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire was announced on Friday, the AP reports.
Ships leaving the Gulf accounted for 70% of the vessels, according to the group's post on X, with "sanctioned or shadow fleet-linked vessels accounting for nearly two-thirds of all crossings."
Before the conflict, over 100 ships passed through the strait every day, most carrying oil bound for Asia.
In Islamabad, mutual distrust remained the order of the day, Agence France-Presse reports. “We have good intentions, but we don’t trust them,” Iranian state television quoted the head of the Iranian delegation, parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, as saying upon his arrival.
He added that "our experience in negotiations with the Americans has always been faced with failures and broken promises."
JD Vance, the US vice president and head of their delegation, was equally cautious. “If the Iranians try to trick us, they will find that the negotiating team is not that open,” he told reporters.
Full list of members of the Iranian delegation
•Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, head of the delegation and speaker of the Iranian parliament;
•Seyed Abbas Araghchi, foreign minister;
•Reza Amiri Moghadam, ambassador to Pakistan;
•Ali Akbar Ahmadian, member of Iran's Supreme National Security Council;
•Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy of the Supreme National Security Council and former acting Foreign Minister;
•Esmael Ahmadi Moghadam, president of the National Defense University;
•Mohammad Jafari, assistant to the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council;
•Naser Hemati, governor of the central bank of Iran;
•Kazim Gharibabadi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
•Majid Takht e Ravanchi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
•Valiollah Nouri, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
•Esmail Baghaei, deputy foreign minister and spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
•Abolfazl Amouei, Iranian MP;
•Mohammad Nabavian, Iranian MP.
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