TOI correspondent from Washington: A high-level American team is heading back to Pakistan on Monday for a second round of talks with Iran amid renewed threats by US President Donald Trump that he will destroy every bridge and every power plant if Teheran does not make a deal with Washington.
Iran has not confirmed that its team will return to Pakistan for the talks, suggesting that it will not do so until the US navy lifts its blockade of the Hormuz Strait and agrees to negotiate on other Iranian demands such as lifting of sanctions, unfreezing its frozen assets, and a permanent end to war. Even though Trump announced the US visit even as he made dire threats, Iran was still ascertaining from Pakistan, whose military ruler Asim Munir made an apparently fruitless three-day visit to Teheran last week, if its red lines would be respected.
