Trump says Iran talks could resume over next two days in Pakistan: reports

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran talks could resume in Pakistan over the next two days, according to an interview with the New York Post.

“You should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we’re more inclined to go there,” Trump was quoted as saying.

Trump said Pakistan’s Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was doing a “great job” on the talks.

“He’s fantastic, and therefore it’s more likely that we go back there,” Trump said.

Negotiating teams from the US and Iran could return to Islamabad later this week, five sources told Reuters earlier on Tuesday, days after the highest-level talks between the two countries in decades ended without a breakthrough.

A source involved in the talks said a date was not yet decided, but both countries could return as early as the end of this week.

The weekend meeting in Pakistan’s capital to resolve the conflict between the US and Iran, held four days after last Tuesday’s ceasefire announcement, was the first direct encounter between US and Iranian officials in more than a decade, and the most senior engagement since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

A proposal has been shared with both the US and Iran to resend their delegates to resume the talks, the first source told Reuters.