Iran Talks: President Trump Calls Off Witkoff-Kushner Islamabad Trip
Trump: “There is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership.’ Nobody knows who is in charge, including them.”
U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would not be traveling to Pakistan for talks with the Iranian regime, President Donald Trump announced Saturday.
The second round of talks, set to take place in Islamabad, was called off as Tehran refuses to accept U.S. terms amid reports of infighting within the regime. The decision was made “due to the Iranian position in peace negotiations,” Axios reported, citing President Trump.
.@POTUS: "You probably heard that we canceled the trip. We have all the cards. We’re not going to spend 15hrs in airplanes all the time, going back and forth, to be given a document that was not good enough. So, we’ll deal by telephone, and they can call us any time they want." pic.twitter.com/wZ3Twz4XpY
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 25, 2026
With most of the pre-war top leadership eliminated in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes, the remnants of the regime are incapable of reaching an agreement, the president suggested.
“Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership,'” he wrote on Truth Social. “Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!”
“Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!” – President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/jpxXgQ0K06
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 25, 2026
The announcement comes amid reports that Iranian Foreign Minister and lead negotiator Abbas Araghchi flew back to Iran after a brief visit to Pakistan.
The second round of talks was doomed from the start. Days ahead of the proposed talks in Islamabad, Iran’s parliament speaker and de facto regime leader, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, stepped down from the negotiating team.
“Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has left Islamabad after meeting Pakistani officials, including Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif,” NBC News reported, citing the Iranian regime media. “This seemingly cements that Araghchi will not be meeting with the American delegation for peace talks in the city.”
Trump on why he cancelled his envoys' trip to Pakistan: "The Iranians gave us a paper that should have been better and interestingly the minute I cancelled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better…they offered a lot but not enough” https://t.co/qmUoyCdcGW
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) April 25, 2026
Before flying to Pakistan, the Iranian foreign minister refused to hold ‘direct talks’ with the U.S. delegation. According to Reuters, “Tehran has ruled out a new round of direct talks with the United States and an Iranian diplomatic source said Tehran would not accept Washington’s ‘maximalist demands.'”
Trump sent a direct message to a New York Post reporter currently in Islamabad:
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 25, 2026
"Come home!!!" pic.twitter.com/205zBDihTy
The first round of talks, which took place almost two weeks ago in Islamabad, ended without a deal after Iran rejected a U.S. proposal that demanded an end to its nuclear program.
Despite a ceasefire, the regime forces have since been firing at oil tankers and ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s proxy terrorist group, Hezbollah, has also been stepping up attacks on Israeli troops despite a separate U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly ordered a ‘powerful’ retaliatory strike against Hezbollah on Saturday afternoon.
🚨🚨 Israeli Prime Minister’s has instructed the IDF to carry out powerful strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) April 25, 2026
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
Good.
As Guy Stockwell said to Charlton Heston in Warlord: “Small loss, eh, brother?”
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
Well take your tongue out of the wall socket already!
Hmm, get a photo first.
Instead of finishing them off we are going to sit and twiddle our thumbs because Trump wants a deal that won’t be worth the paper it is signed on and will be immediately ignored by Iran. This has always been the limitation of air power (with the exception of nuclear weapons in the case of Japan),
Why is the cease fire still in effect?
You know what’s missing from all this?
The “or else” part.
Why is that moron Kushner involved in this. He’s a major reason for a ton of screwups in the first admin.
Why is he ‘negotiating’ anything.
Trump trusts him, Nothing else matters in Trump’s world except perhaps blowing smoke up his butt. At least the trust part is important to have in a subordinate.
Recall that trusting people who later screw him over is one of Trump’s biggest faults. Whether it’s from hidden agenda or incompetence doesn’t matter in the end.
Start blowing up power generation, water filtration, dams, irrigation, internal pipelines. Hint at a large strike package but deliver on a modest number targets each day until we run out of worthwhile targets, we get a decent agreement or the regime is driven from power by internal revolt. Unfortunately these knuckleheads won’t come together to make a deal much less one we’d accept until we demonstrate we’re very indifferent to any criticism for removing their electricity, irrigation, clean water, fuel for the regime forces.
taqiyya
believe NOTHING they say. only trust their actions.
Leave a Comment