Pakistan Says It Will Host U.S.-Iran Talks, While Iran Warns U.S. Ground Troops Would Be ‘Set On Fire’

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan On Sunday, he announced that he would soon host talks between the United States and Iran, but there has been no statement from Washington or Tehran yet and it is unclear whether talks on the matter will take place. month long war will be direct or indirect.

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, in his statement after senior diplomats from Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia met in Islamabad, said, “Pakistan is very happy that both Iran and the United States have expressed their trust in Pakistan to facilitate the talks. Pakistan will be honored to host and facilitate meaningful talks between the two parties in the coming days.” he said.

Pakistan later said the diplomats were on their way to their country. Talks were originally planned to continue on Monday.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry did not respond to questions and Iran’s mission to the United Nations declined to comment.

Islamabad has emerged as a mediator with relatively good ties to Washington and Tehran after what Pakistani officials call weeks of quiet diplomacy.

Earlier, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammed Bager Qalibaf, stated that the talks in Pakistan were rejected for some reasons. 2,500 US Marines Reached the Middle East with amphibious landing training. He said Iranian forces were “waiting for American troops to arrive on the field to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever,” according to state media.

Iran has also threatened to attack the homes of US and Israeli “commanders and political officials” in the region. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesman for the Iranian military’s joint command, referred to “the targeting of homes of Iranian people in various cities” and other “malicious actions,” according to state media reports.

“We don’t know at what moment our homes might be targeted,” said 71-year-old Razzak Saghir al-Mousavi, describing the Iranians’ incessant air strikes as they crossed into Iraq and called on the United States to end the war. “I’m absolutely scared.”

Meanwhile, in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would expand the scope of the army. infestation It is expanding the “existing security strip” in southern Lebanon while targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. No details were disclosed.

More than 1 million Lebanese were displaced during the war. One of them, Mohammad Doghman, described Israel as an “expansionist state.”

War threatened global materials oil, natural gas and fertilizer and disrupted air travel. Strategic control of Iran Strait of Hormuz shook the markets and prices. Now Iran-backed Houthi rebels An entry into war could threaten ships traveling to the Red Sea through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, another important waterway.

Video from The Associated Press taken shortly before midnight showed a huge cloud of black smoke rising from a massive fire in Tehran following attacks in Iran’s capital. Early Sunday night, the Israeli military said warplanes had dropped more than 120 munitions on Tehran in the past 24 hours, targeting facilities used for weapons research, development and production. Around the same time, Iranian state television said that electricity had been restored in parts of Tehran that had suffered outages following attacks on electrical facilities.

More than 3 thousand people were killed war This began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, triggering Iranian attacks on Israel, U.S. military assets, and other sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states. The war continues digital facade additionally.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said the meetings in Pakistan were aimed at opening a “direct dialogue” between the United States and Iran, which have largely communicated through mediators. The war started with attacks by the USA and Israel during indirect negotiations. Pakistan said its foreign ministers met on Sunday without the participation of the United States or Israel.

Iranian officials have rejected the US’s 15-point “action list” as the framework for a possible peace deal and have publicly rejected the idea of ​​negotiating under pressure. But Iran’s state broadcaster reported that Tehran was preparing its own five-point proposal, calling for an end to the killing of Iranian officials, guarantees against future attacks, reparations and for Iran to “exercise sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.”

There is Iran eased some restrictions on commercial ships Late on Saturday, they agreed to allow passage of 20 more Pakistani-flagged ships. “This sends a clear signal that Iran remains open to trade with the world, provided the US stops putting pressure on it,” said Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to Iran.

Anwar Gargash, an advisor to the United Arab Emirates, called for any solution to the war to include “clear guarantees” that Iran’s attacks on neighbors will not be repeated. He said the Iranian government had become the “main threat” to the security of the Persian Gulf and called for compensation for attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Iran has warned of escalating tensions following airstrikes on several universities, including ones that Israel claims are used for nuclear research and development. Concerns about Iran’s nuclear program is at the center of tensions.

paramilitary Revolutionary Guards According to reports in state media, Iran said it would consider Israeli universities and branches of US universities in the region as “legitimate targets” unless security assurances were provided for Iranian universities.

“If the US government wants its universities in the region to be spared, it should condemn the bombing of Iranian universities by noon on Monday,” the guards said.

US colleges have campuses in Qatar and the UAE, including Georgetown, New York and Northwestern universities. The American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University, also in Beirut, moved classes online, calling it a precautionary measure.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said dozens of universities and research centers were hit, including Iran University of Science and Technology and Isfahan University of Technology.

Both sides of the war have threatened to attack civilian facilities, while critics have warned this could amount to a war crime.

In Lebanon, officials say more than 1,200 people have been killed was killed. There were fears of more deaths after Netanyahu, speaking during a visit to northern Israel, announced the expansion of the occupation. Hezbollah “still has the capacity to launch rockets at us,” he said.

Iranian officials reported that more than 1,900 people were killed in the Islamic Republic, while 19 people died in Israel.

80 security personnel lost their lives in Iraq, where Iran-backed militia groups clashed.

20 people lost their lives in the Gulf countries. Four people were killed in the occupied West Bank.

Thirteen US service members was killed in war.

Magdy reported from Cairo and Anna reported from Lowville, New York. Contributors include Associated Press writers Josef Federman in Jerusalem; Samya Kullab in Basra, Iraq; Ali Sharafeddine in Beirut; and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles.