Israel-Iran war LIVE updates: U.S., Iran talks extend into second day as strait showdown deepens

Members of the media enactment arsenic a surface displays quality with an representation of Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gathering with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, astatine a media centre acceptable up for the sum of the U.S.-Iran bid talks successful Islamabad, Pakistan, connected April 11, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters

Negotiations betwixt the United States and Iran appeared to person concluded for now, Iran’s authorities said aboriginal connected Sunday (April 12, 2026), aft ‌a bid of talks successful Pakistan to extremity the six-week warfare betwixt Washington and Tehran.

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The talks successful Islamabad were the archetypal nonstop U.S.-Iranian gathering successful much than a decennary ⁠and the highest-level discussions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The result could find the destiny of the fragile two-week ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for astir 20% of planetary vigor supplies that Iran has ‌blocked since the warfare began. The struggle has sent planetary lipid prices soaring and killed thousands of people.

The White House said the talks, already reaching 15 hours, extended good beyond midnight. Negotiators met distant from nationalist presumption successful the suite of a luxury hotel, with journalists from astir the satellite waiting without quality astatine a normal center. The Trump medication had not ‌yet commented connected whether the negotiations had concluded and what, if any, differences remain.

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