Donald Trump announced talks between the US and Iran could restart in the next 48 hours after negotiations led by JD Vance fell apart last weekend.
The President said that additional peace talks with Iran could take place by Thursday in Pakistan to end the seven-week war.
‘You should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we’re more inclined to go there,’ Trump told the New York Post on Tuesday.
‘It’s more likely, you know why? Because the field marshal is doing a great job.’
Trump’s praise went to Pakistani Field Marshal General Asim Munir, who has played a central role in mediating US-Iran peace talks.
‘He’s fantastic, and therefore it’s more likely that we go back there,’ Trump continued. ‘Why should we go to some country that has nothing to do with it?’
Peace talks collapsed in Islamabad after Vance pushed to bar Tehran from enriching uranium for 20 years, failing to produce a long-term nuclear deal.
Trump responded by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz with a naval blockade – the waterway is responsible for a fifth of the world’s oil trade.
Trump announced talks between the US and Iran could restart in the next 48 after negotiations led by JD Vance fell apart last weekend
Peace talks collapsed in Islamabad after Vance pushed to bar Tehran from enriching uranium for 20 years, failing to produce a long-term nuclear deal
Trump responded by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz with a naval blockade. The gulf waterway is responded for transmitting a quarter of all global oil trade
Trump is weighing three options to force Iran back to the negotiating table, including holding off on direct military strikes while maintaining a significant US military presence in the region.
His other options involve limited military action, such as targeted strikes on the regime’s nuclear, ballistic missile, and energy facilities.
The final option is a maximalist strategy aimed at overthrowing the regime by carrying out attacks against senior Iranian leadership.
However, the President appears reluctant to restart a full bombing campaign, wary that it would further inflame tensions in the region, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Sources say the escalation risks widening the war across the Middle East, even as economic strain rises in the US.
Since the start of the war, US gas prices have been above $4 nationwide and global oil prices have been past $100 a barrel.
Moreover, US wholesale prices surged last month as the war drove up the cost of energy.
The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index – which measures inflation before it hits consumers – rose 0.5 percent from February and 4 percent from March 2025.
Vance failed to secure a deal in Pakistan, resulting in Trump closing the Strait of Hormuz with the US Navy
Trump is weighing three options to force Iran back to the negotiating table, including holding off on direct military strikes while maintaining a significant US military presence in the region
Since the start of the war, US gas prices have been above $4 nationwide and global oil past $100 a barrel
Saudi Arabia has warned Trump that Iran may shut down the Middle East’s remaining oil routes in retaliation for his naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Riyadh fears Tehran could deploy its Houthi proxy in Yemen to disrupt the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a critical artery carrying 10 percent of global trade between Asia and European markets via the Suez Canal.
Trump is facing mounting pressure from Riyadh to lift the Hormuz blockade and return to negotiations with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, warned on April 5 that Iran ‘views Bab al-Mandeb as it does Hormuz.’
If Washington ‘dares to repeat its foolish mistakes, it will soon realize that the flow of global energy and trade can be disrupted with a single move,’ he added.
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned Tehran could throttle the Bab al-Mandeb, Arabic for ‘Gate of Tears,’ a stretch notorious for its treacherous navigation.
‘What share of global oil, gas, wheat, rice, and fertilizer shipments transits the Bab al-Mandeb Strait?’ he asked on April 3. ‘Which countries and companies account for the highest transit volumes through the strait?’
The strait – just 18 miles wide at its narrowest point – is the gateway between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and the only sea route connecting Asian and Persian Gulf oil to the Suez Canal and European markets.
