JD Vance has had his suitcase ready at his ‘doorstep’ for days. No wonder, the ruta Washington-Islamabad It is not just anyone and it is advisable to arrive with something more than a change of clothes to cross half the planet. But, joking aside, there is something strange about the erratic communication from the White House in relation to whether or not his vice president goes to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran.
Within hours of is exhausted the deadline of , the parties seemed doomed to meet again in Pakistan. It was going to be last Thursday, then it became a weekend plan and finally it was taken for granted between Monday and Tuesday. Always, under the language of Donald Trump.
But the days and hours pass, and there is no progress. During Monday, Trump even stated that his number two I was “already” on my way to the Asian country and would arrive on the night of Monday to Tuesday. Shortly after it was the White House itself corrected its ‘boss’: Vance had neither come out nor was he expected to do so immediately.
The rumors have continued throughout Tuesday, with the countdown in hours towards the end of the ceasefire. , the White House still did not move (or move its presidential plane).
At the last minute, JD Vance and the rest of the US delegation that accompanied him decided not take off in it flight scheduled for early in the morningwhile Iran had not even agreed to send its own delegation.
Like a commercial airport screen, Air Force One maintains the ‘postponed’ status, waiting for the Washington-Tehran-Islamabad diplomatic channel to work and give way to a new face-to-face meeting on Pakistani soil after a first round without much success on April 11 and 12.
Then, the vice president led the American delegation and was accompanied by the White House special envoy, Steve Witkoff, y Jared KushnerTrump’s son-in-law, two regulars on Middle East issues.
Since the truce was reached two weeks ago, there have been no more ‘diplomatic successes’, since at Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran he was followed by reinforcement of the blockade by the US and the subsequent decision to close it again by the Iranian regime. The situation became tense to the point that the North American Navy even intercepted a ship linked to the Islamic Republic, which was in the process of negotiation.
