Third round of US-Iran talks underway

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US-Iran war talks in Pakistan LIVE: US Vice President JD Vance and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pose on the day of a meeting for talks about Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan

US-Iran war talks in Pakistan LIVE: US and Iranian delegates held face-to-face talks in Pakistan’s Islamabad on Saturday, to end a war that began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran. The trilateral direct negotiations were taking place with host Pakistan in the capital Islamabad, face-to-face, a departure from recent practice where both sides held talks via a mediator while seated in separate rooms.

The US delegation was being led by Vice President JD Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The Iranian delegation, composed of more than 70 members, was being led by parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, joined by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Two US warships reportedly passed through the Strait of Hormuz, the first such transit since the war with Iran began, as US and Iran peace talks began in Islamabad on Saturday. [Iran disputes this see https://t.me/healthimpact/3453%5D

While a report earlier said that Washington has agreed to defreeze Iranian assets in Qatar and other banks, US officials later denied it. The move is crucial as the defreezing of assets was one of the two preconditions put forward by Iran to begin the talks with the US.

Iran sets ‘red lines’ for talks

Iran doubled down on parts of its earlier proposal, with its delegation telling Iranian state television it had presented some of the plan’s ideas as “red lines” in meetings with Sharif. Those included the Strait of Hormuz, the release of Iran’s blocked assets, the payment of war reparations, and a ceasefire to be enforced across the region.

Iran strikes cautious tone

Meanwhile, Iran struck a cautious tone as its delegation landed in Pakistan late Friday, making it clear that while dialogue is on the table, trust is not. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is leading the delegation said, “Our experience of negotiations with the Americans has always been met with failure and breach of promise.” On the American side, Vice President JD Vance is en route Islamabad and will be joined by Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Iran also warned that the failure to meet the preconditions could hamper the peace process as Ghalibaf on Friday said a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of Iran’s blocked assets were the prerequisites to start the negotiations with the US.

In a post on Truth Social, he wrote, “The Iranians don’t 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!”

‘Make or break’ moment, says Pakistan

Hosting the talks, Pakistan has acknowledged the difficult road ahead. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described the negotiations as entering a decisive phase.

“A temporary ceasefire has been announced, but now an even more difficult stage lies ahead: the stage of achieving a lasting ceasefire, of resolving complicated issues through negotiations,” news agency AFP quoted Sharif as saying.

“This is that stage which, in English, is called the equivalent of ‘make or break,” he added.

Background of peace talks

  • The Islamabad peace talks are taking place amid a fragile two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, which Tehran claims also includes a halt to Israeli operations in Lebanon.
  • Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf accused the opposing side of attacking Iran twice during ongoing negotiations, saying Tehran has “goodwill but no trust,” according to ANI.
  • Iran has reiterated that its previously stated preconditions remain non-negotiable, warning that failure to meet them could derail the talks entirely.
  • However, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump have denied the existence of any such broader ceasefire arrangement.
  • According to reports by AFP, Lebanese authorities say over 1,950 people have been killed in recent weeks of fighting, including more than 350 deaths in a single day shortly after the ceasefire began.
  • The Islamabad meeting is being viewed as a crucial effort to turn the temporary ceasefire into a more durable peace framework and potentially bring an end to the prolonged West Asia conflict.

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US agrees to unfreeze Iranian funds abroad

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A billboard regarding the US and Iran talks outside a media facilitation center, Islamabad, Pakistan, April 11, 2026. ©  AP Photo/Anjum Naveed
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Assets previously blocked by Washington by various means reportedly total more than $100 billion

Washington has agreed to release frozen Iranian assets held in Qatar and other foreign jurisdictions, a move seen as a sign of “seriousness” in reaching a deal between the US and the Islamic Republic, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing a senior Iranian source. Negotiators from both countries have arrived in Pakistan for talks.

High-level Iranian and US delegations arrived in Islamabad on Saturday to continue negotiations on a proposed peace framework. Some elements of the plan have been circulated in media reports, although no official details have been released by either side.

Unfreezing the assets is “directly linked to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz”, a key issue in the talks, an unnamed official told the news agency. The source did not disclose the amount, while a second Iranian official said the US was ready to release $6 billion held in Qatar.

However, CBS News reported, citing a senior US official, that the White House hasn’t agreed to authorize release of the funds.

The exact value of Iran’s frozen assets remains unclear, though by some estimates the figure exceeds $100 billion. It includes funds immobilized directly in the US, assets restricted abroad, oil revenues in escrow, and central bank reserves blocked due to US secondary sanctions.

The $6 billion now held in Qatar was transferred there in September 2023 under a US-Iran prisoner swap mediated by Doha, involving the release of five Americans detained in Iran and five Iranians held in the US. Washington said the money would be limited to humanitarian use, with payments only to approved vendors under US Treasury oversight.

However, following the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel by Iranian ally Hamas, the administration of then-President Joe Biden re-froze the funds, stating that Iran wouldn’t be able to access the money for the foreseeable future and that Washington retained the right to fully block the account.

The funds, originally frozen in 2018, stem from Iranian oil sales to South Korea and had been held in South Korean banks after President Donald Trump reimposed sanctions on Iran and withdrew from the nuclear deal during his first term in office.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/638061-us-iran-frozen-assets-release/

Israeli strikes kill 10 people in southern Lebanon

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The Lebanese health ministry says ten people, including three emergency workers, have been killed by Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon, as the occupying regime continues its aggression across the region.

According to the ministry, Saturday’s strikes targeted several locations in the Nabatiyeh district, while Lebanon’s state media reported that more than a dozen sites were hit in the onslaught.

The ministry added that among the dead were a member of the Lebanese Civil Defense and two paramedics with the Hezbollah-supported Islamic Health Committee.

Lebanon’s health ministry condemned the attacks, describing them as Israel’s “systematic” targeting of emergency workers.

The escalation comes as Iran has reiterated that a ceasefire in Lebanon is part of the two-week ceasefire with the United States and must be included in a potential agreement to end the war, launched by the US and Israel against the country late in February.

A 10-point proposal presented by the Islamic Republic — which US President Donald Trump has described as a “workable basis on which to negotiate and the main framework for these talks” — explicitly conditions a ceasefire on ending aggression on all fronts, including against Lebanon.

Israel has repeatedly violated the 2024 ceasefire deal it signed with Hezbollah, under which Tel Aviv was obligated to halt the deadly escalations toward Lebanon that have cost thousands of lives.

Since February 28, when Israel and the United States launched the unprovoked military offensive against Iran, the occupying regime has intensified its assaults on Lebanon.

Separately on Saturday, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah announced it had launched multiple attacks on Israeli military positions in response to the regime’s continued strikes on southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah said it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the town of Shama using a drone, resulting in direct casualties among the forces stationed there.

The group reported that several gathering points and tanks belonging to Israeli troops were destroyed during the operation. It also launched missiles at multiple towns in the occupied territories, including Safad, Adumim, Nahariya, Kiryat Shmona, Al-Mutala, and Maskaf Am.

Hezbollah additionally fired ten missiles toward Karmiel in the Galilee region. A missile hit a military base in the northern occupied territories without triggering any warning sirens.

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Iran condemns assassination threats against Iranian negotiators amid US talks

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has called for public condemnation of the assassination threats leveled against Iranian negotiators amid ongoing talks with the United States that are aimed at permanently ending the US-Israeli aggression against the country.

In a post on his X account on Saturday, Baghaei said threats in the US government and media space for assassinating the Iranian negotiators, in case the current talks fail, are part of a discourse that seeks to normalize extortion through violence.

“Is this not, in effect, a policy discourse that normalizes extortion through the threat or public incitement of terror, violence, and manslaughter?” he said in the post.

The spokesman, who is himself accompanying the Iranian delegation in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad for the negotiations with the US, said the threats have come amid claims by the US government accusing Iran of lacking good faith and engaging in extortion amid the talks.

“This express public incitement for state terrorism must be denounced by all,” said Baghaei.

Experts believe the far-right political camp in the US is obviously dismayed by the outcome of the US-Israeli aggression on Iran, which began in late February and ended in a Pakistani-mediated two-week ceasefire last week.

The aggression started and continued with the assassination of senior Iranian political and military leaders, aimed at bringing about a regime change in Iran.

However, the US government finally accepted Iran’s conditions as a baseline for launching the current negotiations in Pakistan.

Iranian authorities have indicated that they would seek compensation for all assassinations committed by the US and the Israeli regime in Iran.

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First phase of US-Iran talks concludes in Islamabad with exchange of written texts

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The Iranian negotiation delegation headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (left) consults following the first phase of negotiations with the US delegation in Islamabad, April 11, 2026.

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The first phase of Pakistan-mediated ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran have concluded in Islamabad.

Expert teams from the Iranian and American negotiation delegations have exchanged written texts to reach a framework on the topics discussed and ensure that there is no room for ambiguity in the draft proposals.

Reports said that another round of talks at the expert level will likely be held in Islamabad tonight or tomorrow.

The Iranian delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, participated in the talks following a decision by the United States to release frozen Iranian assets.

This was one of Iran’s demands in its 10-point plan, which Tehran had previously presented to Washington through intermediaries as part of its response to a US proposal for a ceasefire. US President Donald Trump called the plan “a workable basis on which to negotiate.”

The 10-point proposal was also submitted to Islamabad ahead of the talks as the basis for negotiations.

Iran and the US agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, 40 days after the US and Israel launched attacks against the Islamic Republic as Tehran was negotiating with Washington over its nuclear program.

Iran responded forcefully to the aggression, targeting US and Israeli assets across the region and enforcing a near-total blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. The transit through the vital waterway is one of the main topics of discussions in the negotiations in Islamabad, which focus on a potential agreement to permanently end the war.

The cessation of Israeli attacks on Lebanon was another precondition Iran had set for the talks. The issue was part of Iran’s proposal that led to the ceasefire, but the US and Israel later said the Lebanese front was not included. Pakistan also confirmed that it was.

Reports suggested that Israel had ceased attacking the Lebanese capital Beirut and restricted its attacks to areas in southern Lebanon.

The Iranian negotiating team met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad earlier in the day ahead of talks with the United States.

Other Iranian officials on the delegation include Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Secretary of the Supreme National Defense Council, Ali-Akbar Ahmadian, and Governor of the Central Bank, Abdolnasser Hemmati, as well as some members of the Parliament.

US Vice President JD Vance also met with the Pakistani prime minister in Islamabad. Vance was joined for the bilateral meeting by special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The Iranian delegation will assess the US positions and a decision would follow regarding the talks.

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Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for truce talks, insists on preconditions being met

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Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf

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A high-ranking Iranian delegation has arrived in the Pakistani capital Islamabad for talks with US representatives, as Tehran warns that any failure to meet its preconditions will derail the process.

Headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf, the delegation, which includes security, political, military, economic, and legal committees, arrived in Islamabad on Friday night.

Other Iranian officials on the delegation include Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Secretary of the Supreme National Defense Council Ali-Akbar Ahmadian, Central Bank Governor Abdolnasser Hemmati, as well as several members of parliament.

US Vice President JD Vance, Washington’s regional envoy Steve Witkoff, and President Donald Trump’s advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner have also reached Islamabad.

Trump announced a two-week lull in US attacks on Iran on Tuesday, 40 days after the country joined the Israeli regime in the duo’s latest bout of unprovoked aggression towards Iran.

The announcement came after Iran’s Armed Forces unleashed at least 99 waves of determined and successful retaliatory strikes against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.

Earlier on Friday, Qalibaf said a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of Iran’s blocked assets were the prerequisites to be met before the commencement of negotiations with the United States.

A 10-point proposal forwarded by Iran, which Trump has referred to as a “workable basis on which to negotiate and the main framework for these talks,” explicitly conditions a ceasefire on the cessation of aggression on all fronts, including against Lebanon.

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US Soldiers in Middle East Have No Direction, No Strategy, No Plan B

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By Helena Glass

Trump has announced that 100,000 troops stationed across Europe will come back to the US to punish Europe for not bombing Iran.

Additionally, given many bases in the Middle East were leveled, as in completely uninhabitable, leaving those 30,000+ troops to be reassigned as well.

Where will they go? US bases have been in various stages of extremely uninhabitable to barely habitable due to mold, dirty water, and lack of repairs or maintenance.

As a result, soldiers share housing, while others seek affordable off-base shelter. So where exactly will Trump and Hegseth put an additional 130,000 soldiers?

Will European bases be abandoned? Germany alone hosts 20 bases housing 35,000 troops. The threats continue while the logistics are not considered. The bases across Europe were established as central to bomb Middle East and African countries as a Defense hub. Defense has been renamed War by Trump. Because the only country America ‘defends’ is Israel.

The entire concept of NATO is no longer relevant and hasn’t been for decades. Getting out of NATO was actually one of Trump’s original campaign promises. In essence, our military really has no purpose because purpose is written as War. If we bring home troops, put them to work ‘building’ – housing, roads, bridges, running farms, mitigating climate disasters, giving their lives purpose. Giving them respect. Allowing them integrity. Supporting honor.

The US military spends millions on unused office buildings. Wasting money for absolutely no reason. They don’t negotiate leases, they pay top dollar, driving up the market. AI will ultimately destroy commercial real estate. A given statistic. Mitigate what is inevitable. Office buildings are easily convertible into housing units.  Unused land on bases are now open on the private market for building data centers. Other bases are abandoned due to hazardous waste; asbestos and lead paint. Bulldoze them!

The underuse of the military is criminal. While their routine is guided by ‘war readiness’ they could instead be productively used to rebuild a decaying country. Returning pride to what has become a pariah enterprise. Hegseth hired an additional 30,000 troops. Why? Prepping for war?

Today, the newest saving face dilemma is Israel broke the peace deal within minutes of its announcement sending over 200 bombs into Lebanon and killing 254 people within less than an hours time. Defying Trump. Defying the deal. And announcing that he never agreed to anything – and is not a party to the peace. Trump has options:

1) move all troops out of the Middle East and let Israel and Iran duke it out alone.

2) lie and claim Iran broke the deal.

3) lie and claim the peace deal never included Lebanon.

Unfortunately, Trump has a vested interest in Gaza, had vested interests in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, and is all over the Epstein Files which Israel is using to completely destroy Trump’s narcissistic ‘legacy’. In Trump world, money is everything. It supersedes family, America, Americans, and just about everything – except Trump’s obsession with being the Greatest President Ever in the history books, which is why he requires his name prominent on monuments, arches, ballrooms, concert halls, dollar bills, etc.

Right now, Israel has Trump chained. Hegseth lied to the people about the rescue operation. Many more soldiers have died than the White House figure of 15. The wounded are not even counted. Bases are flattened and the war is one ginormous veritable failure. Yes-men Generals do NOT win wars, they create them. In an attempt to regain some semblance of posterity, Trump was going to announce his dropping out of NATO to punish Europe.

Now Trump faces a failed peace deal and a closed Strait yet again while already capitulating that Iran could charge $2 million per passage. Clawing out of this massive hole is going to require – TRUTH.   

It is quite possible the entire military could call mutiny. The Pentagon is likely in a frenzy closing down any potential leaks of Truth while ascertaining a means and way of saving face for Trump. Which does not seem likely. Iran’s talented media ops continue to release their LEGO version of what is actually happening in contrast to Hegseth, Leavitt, and Trump. Influencers are mocked. JD Vance, the anointed Catholic, is lying thru his teeth – and EVERYONE KNOWS IT!

The Feeds that were CIA and DoD propaganda have lost the PR War. Italy’s Meloni is raging about lost oil, the UK, Germany and France are close behind with rationing expected. And in that sense, Iran has already won. Europe wants to wholly abandon any relationship with America in order to plead for Iran’s mercy. Putin shakes his head.  Jinping gives that barest hint of a smile. And Trump’s Zionist financiers are screaming for him to do something!

Trump tweets. Leaving behind a trail of evidence for each lie. Leaving troops in harms way. Abandoning his duty as Commander and Chief. Hegseth is lost in his limbo world of denial – leaving 50,000 US troops in the Middle East as potential fodder from both Israeli and Iranian fire. General Dan Caine is mumbling incoherently. And Plan B was apparently never discussed. They have NO PLAN B, which is why Hegseth fired some 20 to 30 Generals – they demanded strategy and Hegseth demanded ‘wing it’.

Bring our troops home to build instead of destroy!

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-soldiers-in-middle-east-have-no-direction-no-strategy-no-plan-b/5921797

Trump Claims Netanyahu Will Scale Back Strikes on Lebanon

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Civilians inspect a residential building in ruins after an Israeli strike hits Corniche Al-Mazraa district in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 09, 2026. © Getty Images

HP McLovincraft

US President Donald Trump has said he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back the bombing of Lebanon as Gulf countries and some NATO members insisted that a ceasefire in the area must be part of a broader truce with Iran.

Despite Trump’s assertion, Lebanese media reported Israeli strikes across the country on Friday morning. An estimated 1,800 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon since the start of the escalation in the Middle East, with more than 300 dying on Wednesday alone. The attacks triggered significant public outcry, including from US allies in the EU.

Iran has insisted that fighting in Lebanon must cease as part of the two-week truce framework with the US – something Washington and the Jewish state have opposed.The exact outlines of a potential US-Iran peace deal remain unclear, after Iranian media shared a plan envisaging non-aggression, Tehran’s control over the strategic Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of some uranium enrichment, stopping Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, and the lifting of all sanctions. The US previously opposed many of the terms.

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Via https://hellboundanddown.com/2026/04/10/trump-claims-netanyahu-will-scale-back-strikes-on-lebanon/

White House ‘signed off’ on Pakistan’s declaration that Iran ceasefire included Lebanon

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APR 9, 2026

Washington later denied that Lebanon was included in the deal after Israel massacred hundreds of civilians in the country

The White House was directly involved in “shaping” the ceasefire announcement by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, having reviewed and approved it before publication, according to a New York Times (NYT) report on 8 April.

The report says Washington saw and signed off on the statement in advance, indicating that the announcement was not an independent diplomatic move but part of coordinated communication.

US President Donald Trump had issued an 8:00 pm deadline on Tuesday for Iran to surrender, saying that he would erase an entire civilization if Tehran did not agree to his terms for a deal.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” the president wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.

The NYT report notes that, behind the scenes, US officials were actively seeking a way out as the deadline approached, even as US President Donald Trump was threatening Iran with annihilation if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz.

It asserts that diplomatic channels were far more active than the public messaging indicated, with the ceasefire appeal reflecting a managed effort rather than a spontaneous initiative.

Sharif’s post itself had appeared earlier with the header “Draft – Pakistan’s PM Message on X,” fueling speculation that the text had been provided externally before publication. It called for extending the deadline by two weeks, reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a “goodwill gesture,” and implementing a temporary ceasefire across all fronts.

Iran’s 10-point plan includes US non-aggression, sanctions removal, compensation, troop withdrawal, uranium enrichment, and Iranian control of Hormuz, alongside a halt to fighting across all fronts, directly naming Lebanon.

The Pakistani premier’s statement on X explicitly stated that “the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.”

It concluded by welcoming the move, thanking the leadership of both sides, and inviting their delegations to Islamabad for further talks, while tagging Trump and senior US officials.

JD Vance later said the US never promised to include Lebanon in the ceasefire, claiming Iran’s belief that it was included came from a “misunderstanding.”

Israeli forces launched a large-scale assault across Beirut and other areas in Lebanon, hours after the ceasefire announcement, killing at least 254 people and wounding over 1,100, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense, with more casualties being retrieved and identified.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/white-house-signed-off-on-pakistans-declaration-that-iran-ceasefire-included-lebanon-report

Iran forced Israel to halt attacks on Beirut by threatening to withdraw from talks with US

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Heavy equipment operates at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 9, Pr2026. (Photo by Reuters)

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Intense pressure and the threat to withdraw from talks with the United States in Islamabad from Tehran forced the Zionist regime to stop its military attacks on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a high-ranking security source told Press TV on Friday.

According to the source, following the Zionist regime’s brutal aggression on Lebanon on Wednesday, Iran made the cessation of those attacks a firm precondition for its participation in temporary ceasefire negotiations with the United States.

“The unity of the resistance front was non-negotiable for Iran,” the source told Press TV.

He hastened to add that the travel of an Iranian delegation to Islamabad was delayed a few times, specifically due to the continued Israeli aggression against Lebanon.

Through persistent insistence and a credible threat to walk out of the talks, Iran forced the United States to compel the Zionist regime to halt its strikes on Beirut, the source added.

He further emphasized that the continuation of negotiations is also contingent on the Zionist regime refraining from attacking Beirut and its southern suburb of Dahieh.

Iran issued a clear warning that the persistence of Zionist attacks on Lebanon could ultimately void the negotiation process altogether.

Faced with Iran’s unwavering insistence and a genuine threat to walk away from the negotiating table, the United States was compelled to intervene, the source stated.

“The Americans were forced to make the Zionist regime halt its assaults on Beirut,” he told Press TV.

However, the source emphasized that the pause in military aggression is conditional. The continuation of any future talks remains contingent on the Zionist regime refraining from further attacks on Beirut and its southern suburb, Dahieh.

He warned, in unequivocal terms, that should the brutal regime violate this understanding and resume bombing Beirut, the negotiations will be terminated immediately.

After 40 days of unrelenting US-Israeli aggression that began on February 28, the United States on Wednesday accepted Iran’s 10-point proposal as the foundation for a permanent ceasefire.

One of the key points in the proposal is the cessation of aggression on all fronts, including against the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon (Hezbollah).

However, just hours after the ceasefire was announced on Wednesday, the Israeli regime launched devastating strikes on multiple areas of Lebanon, including Beirut, killing nearly 250 civilians — among them women and children.

Iran immediately vowed to retaliate against this serious breach of the ceasefire, emphasizing that the Lebanese front is an integral part of the Axis of Resistance, explicitly mentioned in the 10-point proposal.

Iran and the United States are expected to hold talks in Islamabad on Friday to discuss the proposal, which also calls for halting US-Israeli aggression and lifting sanctions against Iran.

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