US Envoys Head to Pakistan This Weekend for Iran Talks

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Breaking news tonight, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Pakistan tomorrow for talks with Iran, according to the White House. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is in Pakistan to meet with mediators, but his spokesman denied a direct meeting is planned with the U.S., marking the latest conflicting messages from Washington and Tehran. Plus, the far-reaching impact from not only the war in Iran but also fighting on the Israeli-Lebanon border. Vast amounts of food, oil, and supplies stuck on ships, and threatening the global supply chain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.0	The American team of negotiators are poised to depart for Pakistan.
0:39.5	Now, the White House says the peace talks will resume, notably, however, this time without
0:43.0	Vice President, J.D. Vance.
0:46.2	The President has decided to dispatch Special Envoy Whitkoff and Jared Kushner back to Islamabad.
0:53.3	The Iranians want to talk. They want to talk in person.
0:56.0	And so the president is, as I've said, many, many times to all of you, always willing to give diplomacy a chance.
1:02.0	Well, there's some important details to point out about this new round of talks.
1:06.0	First, when the president extended the ceasefire on Tuesday, he did so, he said, to give the Iranians time to return
1:11.1	with what he called a unified proposal. It doesn't sound like there is a unified proposal
1:16.8	that's being made. With this group going, does that mean that you have gotten, that the United
1:22.1	States has gotten any kind of unified proposal from Iran, or are they going over there without
1:26.1	any proposal from the Iranians?
1:33.2	We've certainly seen some progress from the Iranian side in the last couple of days.
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