Trump Reveals Reason for Canceling Pakistan Trip: Travel Time and Uncertainty

American President Donald Trump stated on Saturday (25) that the long travel time is the main reason for having canceled the scheduled trip of two of his main advisors for negotiations with Iran in Pakistan. He added that the negotiations will be conducted by phone. “We are not going to spend 15 hours on planes all the time going back and forth to receive a document that is not good enough, so we are going to negotiate by phone, and they can call us whenever they want,” Trump told reporters outside Air Force One in Florida, before returning to Washington. Trump also repeated previous statements suggesting uncertainty about Iran's leadership, which, according to him, would be complicating the negotiations. Trump cancels delegation trip to Pakistan; Iran's chancellor leaves the country. American President Donald Trump canceled the trip of a delegation led by two important negotiators from the United States to Pakistan. The announcement was made shortly after an Iranian delegation left the Pakistani capital Islamabad. “I have just canceled the trip of my representatives to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. A lot of time wasted on travel, a lot of work!”, he wrote in a post on Truth Social. “In addition, there is a huge internal dispute and confusion within their ‘leadership’. Nobody knows who is in charge, not even them. And we have all the cards up our sleeve, they have none! If they want to talk, just call!!!”, he added. Before the publication, Trump

had already told the American broadcaster Fox News that it was not worth the American delegation taking an 18-hour flight to the mediating country of the conflict. “I told my team a little while ago – they were getting ready to leave – and I said, ‘No, you are not going to take an 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us whenever they want, but you are not going to take any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing’,” the president said to Fox News. Trump's announcement came shortly after Iranian sources reported to CNN that Iran's chancellor, Abbas Araghchi, left Islamabad after meeting with Pakistani mediators. A Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions stated that the Iranian chancellor presented Tehran's demands for an agreement, as well as its reservations regarding the US demands. Araqchi “explained the principles of our country regarding the latest developments related to the ceasefire and the complete end of the war imposed against Iran,” said a statement on the minister's official Telegram account. When asked about Tehran's reservations regarding the US positions in the negotiations, an Iranian diplomatic source in Islamabad told Reuters: “In principle, the Iranian side will not accept maximalist demands.” Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Friday night for a series of meetings with the Pakistani government leadership, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the country's Army chief, Marshal Asim Munir, who has been acting as a key mediator between Tehran and Washington. Pakistani ministers are trying to facilitate a second round of negotiations between American and Iranian authorities, after long discussions in early April failed to ease the most complex diplomatic obstacles between the parties in conflict.

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