The White House characterizes the ongoing talks with Iran in Pakistan as three-way and face-to-face.
“The US, Pakistan and Iran are holding a trilateral face-to-face meeting today,” reads a statement sent to querying reporters that is attributed to a White House official.
A US official tells reporters that Vice President JD Vance’s team in the talks includes Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with Vance’s national security adviser Andrew Baker and his special adviser for Asian affairs Michael Vance, who isn’t related.
The US team is also being assisted in Islamabad by “a full suite of experts on relevant subject areas” and is receiving additional support from experts in Washington, according to the official.
Iran’s negotiating team is being led by its parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
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