{"id":2489,"date":"2026-04-24T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:56:00","slug":"us-iran-possible-direct-talks-on-sunday-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran: possible direct talks on Sunday in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"155\">Open possibility of <b>contact<\/b>, despite denials from <b>Tehran<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"308\"><b>The possibility of direct dialogue<\/b> between the <b>US<\/b> and <b>Iran<\/b> is shaping up in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"310\" data-end=\"589\">According to a Pakistani official speaking to ABC News, <b>the two sides may move to direct talks on Sunday<\/b> if their separate contacts with Pakistani mediators go <b>positively<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"934\">The Iranian delegation, led by Foreign Minister <strong data-start=\"653\" data-end=\"694\">Abbas Araghji<\/strong>, <b>is already in Islamabad<\/b>, while the US delegation, led by special envoy <strong data-start=\"808\" data-end=\"849\">Steve Whitcoff<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"858\" data-end=\"899\">Jared Kushner<\/strong>, <b>is expected to arrive on Saturday<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"936\" data-end=\"1193\">However, Iranian media insist that <b>Araghji&#8217;s visit is exclusively for contacts with Pakistani officials<\/b> on ending the <b>war<\/b> with Washington, <b>denying for now the possibility of a direct meeting with US representatives<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of contacts is open, despite denials from Tehran.<br \/>\nPossibility of direct dialogue between the US and Iran is shaping up on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}