JD Vance heads to Pakistan for talks with Iran
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Islamabad warns that the gap between the negotiating positions of the US and Iran remains wide. Each has accused the other of breaking the terms of the tentative ceasefire agreed this week.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 15 hours GMT on Friday the 10th of April. |
| 0:17.7 | The US Vice President J.D. Vance heads to Pakistan for talks with Iran, but can they |
| 0:23.1 | agree a long-term peace deal? After meeting the Taiwanese opposition leader, China's president |
| 0:29.0 | says reunification with Taiwan is inevitable. And will Hungarians get rid of Prime Minister |
| 0:35.0 | Victor Orban when they head to the polls this weekend. |
| 0:40.6 | Also in the podcast, I would call her bluff and I would, you know, push her a little bit and say, |
| 0:45.5 | okay, now that you've said that, what can you do? What can you do to help us and what can you do to move this along? |
| 0:51.4 | Epstein survivors react to First Lady Melania Trump's call for congressional hearings. |
| 1:00.6 | President Trump has denied declaring a premature victory in Iran, but the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, |
| 1:08.1 | and Israel continues to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 1:12.8 | If this reflects the difficulty surrounding the two-week ceasefire agreed on Tuesday, what are the prospects for a longer-term peace deal? |
| 1:19.4 | Talks are due to begin in Pakistan on Saturday, a day later than originally planned. The |
| 1:24.5 | US will be represented by Vice President J.D. Vance and he spoke to reporters just before he left for Islamabad. Look, we're looking forward to the negotiation. I think it's going to be positive. We'll, of course, see, as the President of the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're certainly willing to extend the open hand. If they're going to try to play us, then they're going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive. So we're |
| 1:48.5 | to try to have a positive negotiation. The president has gave us some pretty clear guidelines, |
| 1:52.8 | and we're going to see. So I hope you guys have a safe flight. For now, let's get on the plane and |
| 1:57.0 | hit the road. The authorities in the Pakistani capital are working to get things ready |
| 2:01.9 | for the talks and security is tight as we heard from our correspondent Caroline Davis. |
| 2:08.7 | So driving through Islamabad at the moment is a bit of a stop-start process because so many of the roads |
| 2:13.7 | have been blocked off, particularly the closer you get to the red zone, |
| 2:18.2 | which is the area of the city where the majority of Pakistan's government buildings are, |
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