Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday (April 25, 2026) met Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir in Islamabad, as Islamabad continued its efforts to facilitate engagement between the U.S. and Iran.

The meeting, according to a short video posted by the Iranian embassy on social media, was also attended by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, and ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday (April 24, 2026) the United States is in no rush to end the war with Iran but “the clock is ticking” for the Islamic Country, as a third American aircraft carrier arrived in West Asia.

Iranian media reported blasts over the capital Tehran, a first since an increasingly tenuous ceasefire in the West Asia war came into effect two weeks ago.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (April 8, 2026) that the United States will help with traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after Washington and Tehran agreed to a truce.

The countries agreed to a two-week ceasefire barely an hour before Mr. Trump’s Wednesday (April 8) deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday (January 29, 2026) he believed Tehran wanted to make a deal to avoid military action, adding that the U.S. “armada” near Iran was bigger than the one he dispatched to topple Venezuela’s leader.

“We have a large armada, flotilla, call it whatever you want, heading toward Iran right now, even larger than what we had in Venezuela,” the Republican President told reporters in the Oval Office.

“Hopefully, we’ll make a deal. If we do make a deal, that’s good. If we don’t make a deal, we’ll see what happens,” he said.

When asked if he had given Iran a deadline to make a deal on its nuclear program, ballistic missiles and other issues, Mr. Trump said “yeah I have” but added that “only they know for sure” what it was.

Mr. Trump, however, cited what he said was Iran’s decision to halt executions of protesters – after a crackdown in which rights groups say more than 6,000 people were killed – as evidence to show Tehran was ready to comply.

“I can say this, they do want to make a deal,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump declined to say whether, if Iran did not reach a deal, he planned a repeat of the dramatic operation in Venezuela in which U.S. forces captured President Nicolas Maduro.

“I don’t want to talk about anything having to do with what I’m doing militarily,” he said.