The American president cancels the planned mission to Pakistan and says that his negotiators will not travel unnecessarily.
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he had canceled the planned trip of his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi had already left Islamabad. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
“They can call us any time they want, but you’re not going to take another 18-hour flight to just sit there and talk about nothing,” Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News in what he said he interpreted to his negotiators, who were about to leave for Islamabad.
Later, in a post on Truth Social, he wrote that there was “tremendous internal strife and confusion” within Iran’s leadership. “No one knows who is ruling there, not even they themselves,” he claimed, adding that if the Iranians want to negotiate, they just need to make a phone call.
Trump is canceling the trip
According to Trump, the United States has all the trump cards and he canceled the trip because of Iran’s position in the negotiations, Axios journalist Barak Ravid quoted from another phone call with the head of the White House. Despite this, according to him, the American president is not going to renew the war with Iran, at least for now.
Shortly before, the media and world agencies reported that Arákchi had left Pakistan after negotiations with the officials there and was continuing his diplomatic journey with stops in Oman and Russia. It is said that he could return to Pakistan to meet the American envoys early next week.
Meeting postponed
The White House announced on Friday that Trump would send Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Arakhchi. However, Iranian state media reported that direct talks between the US and Iranian delegations in Islamabad are not on the agenda.
