A person walks previous a welcoming billboard that includes Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, middle, with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, proper, and Shehbaz Sharif alongside a roadside in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 23, 2026.
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ISLAMABAD — Iran’s president was touring to Pakistan on Tuesday for talks with officers who’ve been mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a everlasting finish to the conflict within the Center East at the same time as discrepancies have been rising on what had been agreed up to now.
President Masoud Pezeshkian’s go to to Islamabad comes as technical groups have been engaged on particulars of the deal, following high-level negotiations in Switzerland on Monday led by US Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.
In Tehran, Iran’s capital, International Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei instructed reporters that no visits have been scheduled for the U.N. watchdog — the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company — to see Iranian nuclear websites bombed by america final yr. Vance had beforehand mentioned the negotiations in Switzerland gained an settlement for IAEA to examine the websites.
The IAEA has been out and in of Iran since Israel’s 12-day conflict towards Iran in 2025, however has not been granted entry to the bombed enrichment websites focused by the U.S. in that conflict.
Iran’s president makes his first go to to Islamabad since conflict began
Safety was tight within the space of Islamabad the place the Iranian president was to fulfill with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. It is Pezeshkian’s first go to for the reason that battle began with the U.S. and Israeli assault on Iran on Feb. 28.
Pezeshkian and Sharif have been to carry joint information convention after their discussions.
Within the preliminary talks, marking the beginning of a 60-day diplomatic course of that seeks to achieve a everlasting deal to finish the Iran conflict, Iran and the U.S. agreed to create a “de-confliction cell” to deal with the combating in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia group. The U.S. mentioned negotiators additionally mentioned “mechanisms” to make sure the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for the transit of oil that Iran had successfully blocked in the course of the conflict, stays open.
Forward of his conferences in Pakistan, Pezeshkian cautioned that “the effectiveness of the talks depends on full commitment to the agreed obligations and their precise implementation.”
“Progress on this path will be measured by practical adherence to accepted responsibilities,” he wrote on X. “Statements outside the agreed text do not help advance the negotiations.”
Iran says negotiation teams targeted on sanctions aid, nuclear points and extra
Iran advised the continuing technical talks in Switzerland have led to the creation of particular negotiation teams, which embrace these targeted on sanctions aid, nuclear points, reconstruction and monitoring, in accordance with a the state-run IRNA information company.
The report quoted Kazem Gharibabadi, a deputy overseas minister main the technical talks, saying that the international locations concerned additionally fashioned a contact mechanism over ships shifting by means of the Strait of Hormuz and over the combating in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah.
It stays unclear whether or not the de-confliction cell being created might be sufficient to cease combating between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel, which occupies a part of Lebanon and insists it should preserve a free hand to assault militants launching assaults into northern Israel.
Netanyahu raises new questions over fragile Lebanon ceasefire
Mediators Pakistan and Qatar mentioned the cell would come with the Lebanese authorities and would “ensure the adherence of the termination of military operations in Lebanon,” however Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised new questions late on Monday, saying his navy nonetheless has “full freedom of action to thwart any direct or emerging threat to them or to the residents of the north.”
Neither Israel nor Hezbollah are signatories to the U.S.-Iran deal, and Netanyahu has vowed to maintain his forces in southern Lebanon till any menace to Israel is eradicated. Hezbollah has refused to halt assaults until Israel commits to withdrawing.
U.S. President Donald Trump later mentioned “we’re going to take a look at it,” when requested about Netanyahu’s feedback, including that he would not say what motion he would take however that the state of affairs would “get solved.”
“I’m a problem solver, I get problems solved real fast, including with Bibi,” he mentioned, utilizing a nickname for Netanyahu.
In the mean time, the renewed ceasefire in Lebanon, brokered on Saturday, seems to be holding with no new Israeli or Hezbollah strikes reported in a single day.
Lebanon and Israel deliberate one other spherical of direct talks in Washington on Tuesday, that are anticipated to deal with creating a plan for an Israeli withdrawal.
