{"id":316520,"date":"2026-04-10T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=316520"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:20:00","slug":"u-s-and-iran-prepare-for-talks-israel-agrees-to-lebanon-negotiations-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/u-s-and-iran-prepare-for-talks-israel-agrees-to-lebanon-negotiations-national\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Iran prepare for talks, Israel agrees to Lebanon negotiations – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Negotiators from Iran and the U.S. prepared for high-level talks with their ceasefire still shaky Friday, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

There remain many issues that would derail the truce \u2014 in addition to negotiations for broader deal to permanently end the war.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s semiofficial Tasnim news agency, near the Revolutionary Guard, claimed that talks set for Saturday wouldn\u2019t occur unless Israel stopped its attacks in Lebanon. And U.S. President Donald Trump complained that Iran was \u201cdoing a really poor job\u201d by not allowing the free flow of ships through the strait, through which 20% of the world\u2019s traded oil once passed.<\/p>\n

Kuwait, meanwhile, said it faced a drone attack Thursday night that it blamed on Iran and its militia allies within the region. Though Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard denied launching any assault, it has carried out attacks across the Mideast previously that it didn’t claim.<\/p>\n

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And yet, preparations for the talks between Iran and the U.S. in Pakistan appeared to maneuver forward, with U.S. Vice President JD Vance set to take off from Washington. Negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, meanwhile, are expected to start next week in Washington, in line with a U.S. official and an individual aware of the plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity as a result of the delicacy of the matter.<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s insistence that the ceasefire in Iran doesn’t include a pause in its fighting with Hezbollah, which joined the war in support of its backer, Iran, has threatened to scupper the deal.<\/p>\n

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The day the truce was announced, Israel pounded Beirut with airstrikes, killing greater than 300 people, in line with Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry. It was the deadliest day within the country because the war began Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

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Trump said Thursday that he has asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dial back the strikes. Early Friday, Israel\u2019s military said it hit roughly 10 launchers in Lebanon that had fired rockets toward northern Israel a day earlier.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, warned Thursday that continued Israeli attacks on Hezbollah would bring \u201cexplicit costs and STRONG responses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu, meanwhile, said that he authorized the negotiations with Lebanon \u201cas soon as possible\u201d with the aim of disarming Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors, which have technically been at war since Israel was established in 1948.<\/p>\n

The Lebanese government had not responded as of early afternoon Friday. The timing and site of the talks were first reported by Axios.<\/p>\n

Two days after Israel\u2019s intense barrage, people sifted through the wreckage of their homes, attempting to salvage whatever furniture and private mementos they might find within the rubble. Some expressed gratitude that they lost only their homes and belongings, not their family members, as others had.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no such thing as a substitute for family,\u201d said Wissam Tabila, 35. \u201cAll the things else may be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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