US delegation heading to Pakistan for Iran talks: Trump

US President Donald Trump said that his envoys would return to Pakistan for new talks with Iran, and threatened new attacks on Iran’s bridges and power plants if it did not accept the conditions.

Trump said the US delegation would arrive Monday evening; This timetable leaves just one day left for talks to make progress before the two-week ceasefire ends.

“We are offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL and I hope they accept it because if they don’t the US will disable every Power Plant and every single Bridge in Iran,” he said on social media.

However, there is no confirmation yet from Iran that it will participate in new negotiations.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that no decision was taken to send a delegation at a time when the USA was blockading Iranian ports.

A White House official said the US delegation would be led by Vice President J.D. Vance, who led the first peace talks of the war a week ago.

Trump envoy Steve Kushner and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also attend.

Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Baqir Qalibaf, had previously said the two sides had made progress but were still far apart on nuclear issues and the Strait of Hormuz.

The vital shipping strait remained closed on Sunday after Iranian forces opened fire on two ships trying to pass through.

Iran, which has closed the strait to ships other than its own since the attack by the USA and Israel on February 28, announced that it would reopen it on Friday.

But that decision was reversed on Saturday after Trump refused to lift the US blockade of Iranian ports.

“Iran decided to fire bullets into the Strait of Hormuz yesterday – Complete Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement!” Trump wrote in his Sunday morning post:

“That wasn’t nice, wasn’t it?”

Trump’s renewed threat to strike Iran’s power plants and bridges fits with such warnings throughout the war, many of which preceded moves to de-escalate tensions.

Two weeks ago, Iran suddenly declared a ceasefire, just hours after declaring that “the entire civilization will die tonight.”

Iran has said it would hit the power plants and desalination plants of its Arab neighbors in the Gulf if the United States attacked its civilian infrastructure.

The war, now in its eighth week, has created the most severe shock to global energy supplies in history; It caused oil prices to rise due to the de facto closure of the strait, which carried one fifth of the world’s oil shipments before the war.

Early Sunday morning, two liquefied petroleum gas tankers were seen on ship tracking sites heading east towards the strait, but Tasnim news agency reported that Iranian armed forces turned them back.

Maritime traffic data showed no further movement after midnight.

Two giant US C-17 cargo planes landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base on Sunday afternoon carrying security equipment and vehicles in preparation for the arrival of the US delegation, two Pakistani security sources said.

City authorities in the capital Islamabad stopped public transport and heavy goods traffic in the city.

Rolls of barbed wire were laid near the Serena Hotel, where last week’s talks were held.

The hotel told all its guests to leave on Sunday.