Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar set to discuss Iran with Marco Rubio

Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Washington on Friday for talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which are expected to include the latest developments in negotiations on ending the war in Iran.

A first round of peace talks in Pakistan concluded “without a deal”, but Reuters cited sources saying on Thursday that Tehran and Washington had reached a first agreement, to extend the ceasefire announced in April and lift restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

However, US President Donald Trump has yet to approve the deal and Iran’s Tasnim news agency reiterated on Friday that it had not been finalized, saying it had undergone changes in recent days.

Dar will meet with Rubio at 10 a.m. (2 p.m. GMT), according to Rubio’s schedule posted on the U.S. State Department website. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, which announced Dar’s arrival, said he would return home later in the day.

While Dar is also deputy prime minister, Pakistan’s attempt to mediate an end to the Iranian conflict, which has killed thousands and caused global economic hardship by driving up energy prices, has been led by army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir.

Trump, who has praised Munir, has repeatedly said since mid-March that the end of the war is near, even though Washington and Tehran have shown little public “movement” toward common ground.

Iran has called for the lifting of sanctions, the unfreezing of foreign assets and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the region, while the United States has called on Iran to dismantle its nuclear program, which Tehran says is intended for peaceful purposes.

Read more: Trump slams ‘losers’ criticizing Iran deal

The most pressing issue is freeing up traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which carried a fifth of the world’s oil and gas shipments before the conflict.

No tankers have transited the strait in the past 24 hours, although a Chinese-flagged vehicle carrier did, data from MarineTraffic, which only captures vessels actively broadcasting their positions, showed at 1200 GMT on Friday.

Several supertankers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers left at the start of the week.

Iranian state television said 24 ships had passed through the strait in the past 24 hours, reiterating that none would transit without permission from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Pakistan had earlier said Dar’s talks with Rubio would focus on bilateral relations and “Pakistan’s efforts to promote regional peace and stability through dialogue and diplomacy”.

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