{"id":355239,"date":"2026-06-23T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=355239"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:42:21","slug":"u-s-iran-working-to-finalize-deal-as-iranian-president-arrives-in-pakistan-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/u-s-iran-working-to-finalize-deal-as-iranian-president-arrives-in-pakistan-national\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Iran working to finalize deal as Iranian president arrives in Pakistan – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran\u2019s president arrived in Pakistan for talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a\u00a0everlasting end to the war\u00a0within the Middle East, whilst discrepancies emerged on what had been agreed to this point and violence broke out again in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

President Masoud Pezeshkian\u2019s visit to Islamabad comes as\u00a0technical teams were working on details of the deal\u00a0following high-level negotiations in Switzerland Monday led by U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran\u2019s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.<\/p>\n

In Tehran, Iran\u2019s capital, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters that no visits were scheduled for the U.N. watchdog \u2014 the International Atomic Energy Agency \u2014 to look at Iranian nuclear sites bombed by the US last 12 months. Vance previously said the negotiations in Switzerland won an agreement for the inspectors to go to the sites.<\/p>\n

The IAEA has been out and in of Iran since Israel\u2019s 12-day war in 2025, but has not been granted access to the bombed enrichment sites targeted by the U.S. on the time.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, violence flared again in southern Lebanon as Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing two people. The reports of violence got here after two days of calm following a ceasefire brokered on Saturday. Any renewal of heavy fighting could threaten the broader diplomatic talks, since Iran has demanded that a full truce in Lebanon be a part of any comprehensive deal.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other senior officials received Pezeshkian upon his arrival in Islamabad amid tight security, in line with Pakistani state media. Television footage showed Pezeshkian embracing Zardari and Sharif as they welcomed him.<\/p>\n

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also joined the delegation in Islamabad.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Iranian president\u2019s first visit for the reason that conflict began with the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

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Pezeshkian and Sharif were to carry a joint news conference after their discussions.<\/p>\n

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Within the initial talks, marking the beginning of a 60-day diplomatic process that seeks to achieve a everlasting deal to finish the Iran war, Iran and the U.S. agreed to create a \u201cde-confliction cell\u201d to handle the fighting in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group. The U.S. said negotiators also discussed \u201cmechanisms\u201d to be sure that the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil transit that Iran had effectively blocked throughout the war, stays open.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of his meetings in Pakistan, Pezeshkian cautioned that \u201cthe effectiveness of the talks relies on full commitment to the agreed obligations and their precise implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cProgress on this path might be measured by practical adherence to accepted responsibilities,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cStatements outside the agreed text don’t help advance the negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iran suggested that the continued talks in Switzerland have led to the creation of specific negotiation groups, including those focused on sanctions relief, nuclear issues, reconstruction, and monitoring, in line with the state-run IRNA news agency.<\/p>\n

The report quoted Kazem Gharibabadi, a deputy foreign minister leading the technical talks, saying the countries involved also formed a contact mechanism over ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz and over the fighting in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

It stays unclear whether the deconfliction cell being created might be enough to stop fighting between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israel, which occupies a part of Lebanon and insists it must have the ability to attack militants launching attacks into northern Israel.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces opened fire and killed two men within the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa on Tuesday, Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency reported, saying the pair were next to a bulldozer clearing a road.<\/p>\n

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Individually, the agency said Israeli troops fired on residents near the town of Hadatha as they were heading to perform a burial with a Lebanese army escort.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from Israel.<\/p>\n

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