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Patrick Lum (now); Nadeem Badshah, Lucy Campbell, Tom Ambrose, Taz Ali and Jonathan Yerushalmy (earlier)

Trump warns of fresh strikes if Iran talks fail – as it happened

Iran Donald Trump Lebanon Hezbollah Hormuz Middle East Israel United States Sanae Takaichi Oil
Building damaged by Israeli air strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon
A building hit by recent Israeli air strikes is seen during a press tour organized by the Hezbollah media office, in the Five Wings residential area, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, 10 April 2026. Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA

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“As JD Vance arrives in Islamabad to negotiate a peace deal with Iran, his first high-profile assignment of the war looks to be a poisoned chalice,” writes the Guardian’s Andrew Roth in his analysis of the highest-level US-Iran meeting since 1979.

“Vance will be face a difficult choice in Islamabad: to either undersign considerable US concessions to Iran in order to hold the ceasefire and negotiate the opening of the strait of Hormuz – or effectively cut off negotiations, personally backing a return to war that is unpopular with the American public.”

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