US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Pakistan this weekend for additional peace talks with Iran, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Friday.
Pakistani mediators will facilitate “direct talks” on Saturday between the president’s envoys and “representatives from the Iranian delegation,” Leavitt told Fox News’ “America Reports.”
“The Iranians reached out — as the president called on them to do — and asked for this in-person conversation,” she added.
“We’re hopeful that it will be a productive conversation, and hopefully move the ball forward towards a deal.”
A senior Trump administration official added that Vice President JD Vance is “willing to drop everything” to “make his way over there if needed.”
Several top Vance aides will be in attendance already.
The VP was present for the first round of negotiations in Islamabad April 11, which broke up without an agreement after 21 hours of discussion.
Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, acted as the VP’s high-level counterpart.
Ghalibaf is not expected to attend this weekend’s talks as speculation swirls about his status in Iran’s fractured leadership.
The Iran delegation arrived in Pakistan late Friday local time, sources in both governments told The Post.
Iranian officials are expected to stop in Oman and Russia after talks conclude in Pakistan, per Iran’s state-run IRNA news outlet.
Much of downtown Islamabad has been closed off to normal traffic to facilitate the high-level diplomatic discussions, as the US-Iran conflict stretches into its eighth week.
President Trump extended what was supposed to be a two-week cease-fire on Tuesday, but has threatened to resume airstrikes against Tehran if the talks fail.
“If they don’t want to make a deal, then I’ll finish it up militarily with the other 25% of the targets,” he said in the Oval Office on Thursday.
