Iran says no negotiations until there’s a Lebanon ceasefire
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Iran has set pre-conditions for the start of negotiations with the United States including a ceasefire in Lebanon. President Trump insisted that Iran had only one card to play in the negotiations - its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Also on the programme: the four astronauts on board the Artemis mission are preparing to return to Earth. We speak to someone who went before them and we hear from a 13-year-old girl in Beirut who witnessed an Israeli strike on the city.
(Wreckage after Israel launched a blitz of air strikes on Lebanon on Wednesday CREDIT: AFP via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello, welcome to the programme. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you |
| 0:14.3 | live from London. I'm Paul Henley. Now, the future of peace talks planned for Iran has been thrown into doubt by a statement from |
| 0:23.0 | the Iranian foreign minister that the US must first stop Israel's attacks on Lebanon. |
| 0:29.3 | The Speaker of Iran's Parliament leading the Iranian delegation that has just arrived for |
| 0:33.8 | the talks in Pakistan had previously also stressed the necessity of releasing Iran's |
| 0:38.8 | blocked assets. Pakistan is the venue of the talks on Saturday billed as historic by organizers |
| 0:45.2 | and intended to include the US Vice President J.D. Vance. Malida Lodi was Pakistan's representative |
| 0:52.7 | to the UN as well as ambassador to the United States. |
| 0:56.5 | She told the BBC Pakistan had played a crucial role in bringing about these talks. |
| 1:02.0 | It's high risk, but then it's also high reward. And in any case, Pakistan was uniquely positioned |
| 1:08.2 | to play this role. There was nobody else who the US turned to and then Iran also |
| 1:13.8 | accepted. If Pakistan can actually succeed in ensuring that the two sides adhere to the ceasefire |
| 1:20.5 | and also reach some kind of an understanding during the talks in Islamabad, that it will be a big feather |
| 1:26.8 | in Pakistan's diplomatic cap. But the war in Islamabad, then it will be a big feather in Pakistan's diplomatic cap. |
| 1:29.0 | But the war in Lebanon continues. More than 350 people were killed and over a thousand wounded |
| 1:35.1 | in a huge wave of Israeli attacks on Wednesday after the ceasefire in the conflict with Iran had been |
| 1:41.0 | announced. Israel says it killed more than 180 Hezbollah militants. |
| 1:45.6 | Israeli strikes have continued today. Our State Department correspondent in Washington is Tom Bateman, |
| 1:52.2 | and I put it to Tom that there were still huge obstacles to these talks. |
| 1:56.6 | Many. I mean, I think as the Vice President J.D. Vance flies into Islamabad, you're seeing two sides |
| 2:01.6 | moving further apart because, I mean, you've mentioned some of the comments from the Iranian |
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