WASHINGTON: US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday said there is lot of mistrust between Iran and the US which cannot be resolved overnight.
However, he said despite challenges Iranian negotiators wanted to make a deal and that he felt “very good about where we are.”
“There is a lot of, of course, mistrust between Iran and the United States of America. You are anot going to solve that problem overnight,” Vance said during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia.
“We are negotiating with Iran,” Vance said. He also said the ceasefire is holding and that Iranian negotiators “wanted to make a deal.”
Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that peace talks between the United States and Iran could resume in Pakistan “over the next two days”.
“Something could be happening over the next two days, and we’re more inclined to go there,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post. “It’s more likely, you know why? Because the field marshal is doing a great job,” he said.
Trump said Pakistan’s Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir was doing a “great job” on the talks.
“He’s fantastic, and therefore it’s more likely that we go back there,” Trump said.
“I just think he’s a great guy. The Field Marshal. You know he ended the war with India, saved 30 million people,” he added.
Discussions are quietly continuing after the US and Iranian delegations ended marathon negotiations over the weekend in Islamabad.
“Look, things are happening, but, you know, a little bit slow,” Trump told the New York Post in a phone interview.
The US and Iran are weighing a second round of peace negotiations, with Tehran considering a temporary pause in shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Pakistan, which mediated the first round of high-stakes US-Iran talks in Islamabad last weekend, has intensified diplomatic efforts to sustain dialogue and prevent further escalation.
Iranian officials are exploring a short-term halt to shipments via the vital energy corridor to avoid testing a US naval blockade and to create space and resume peace talks, according to Bloomberg.
During the first round of talks in Islamabad, the US negotiation team was led by US Vice President JD Vance and the Iranian delegation was led by Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.
