OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
9:28 AM – Saturday, April 25, 2026
President Donald Trump will no longer be sending U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to Pakistan to participate in indirect talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
On Saturday, Fox News reported that the president made a statement against further in-person discussions, due to the time and resources it would cost to travel back and forth to the Middle East.
“I’ve told my people a little while ago — they were getting ready to leave, and I said, ‘Nope, you’re not making an 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing’,” Trump said to the outlet.
Araghchi has reportedly already left Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city, after speaking with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said in an X post on Saturday morning that the foreign minister met with high-level Pakistani officials to discuss “ending American imposed was of aggression.”
“No meeting is planned to take place between Iran and the U.S.” he wrote. “Iran’s observations would be conveyed to Pakistan.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that a meeting would take place on Friday. This would have been the first in-person conversation since the president announced an extension to the two-week ceasefire on Tuesday.
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