Vance flew to Pakistan for negotiations with Iran

US Vice President JD Vance expects that negotiations with Iran in Islamabad (Pakistan) will yield a positive outcome, Oxu.Az reports citing NBC News.

"We're looking forward to the negotiations. I hope that they will yield a positive outcome," he told reporters before boarding "Air Force Two" at Andrews Air Force Base. "If the Iranians want to negotiate in good faith, then we are certainly ready to extend a helping hand to them; if they are going to try to outsmart us, they will find that our negotiating team will not take kindly to that."

The day before, US President Donald Trump told NBC that Washington and Tehran could reach an agreement on conflict resolution in the near future.

The White House reported that the US negotiating team, led by Vance, presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff, and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, would head to negotiations with Iran this week.

It was previously expected that the US and Iran would hold their first round of negotiations on April 10 in the capital of Pakistan. Later, reports emerged that the negotiations could take place on April 11.

And this morning, the Tasnim news agency, citing an informed source, reported that Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, as members of the Iranian negotiating group, had allegedly not left the Islamic Republic, with both remaining in Tehran, where they are actively carrying out their state duties.