STORY: :: Senior U.S. and Iranian leaders are in Pakistan's capital for peace talks, amid doubts over the issue of Lebanon
:: Islamabad, Pakistan / April 11, 2026
:: These are set to be the highest-level U.S.-Iran talks since the Islamic Revolution of 1979
:: Released April 11, 2026
The U.S. delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, and including President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, landed in two U.S. Air Force planes at an air base in Islamabad on Saturday morning, where they were received by Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.
The Iranian delegation, led by parliamentary speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, arrived on Friday. Footage released on Iranian state TV in Islamabad on Saturday showed them in Islamabad.
The broadcast also showed Qalibaf standing and looking at photos and backpacks said to belong to victims of deadly Minab school strike, placed on plane seats in an unknown location.
Tehran says an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, Hormozgan province, killed more than 175 children and teachers on the first day of the six-week-old war which began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
These will be the highest-level U.S.-Iran talks since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. If the two sides hold face-to-face negotiations as expected, they would be first direct talks since 2015, when they reached a deal on Iran's nuclear program. Trump scrapped the nuclear deal in 2018 during his first term in office.
