Friday, April 24, 2026

Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt mediating backchannel talks between US and Iran

Tehran has denied holding talks with the US despite President Donald Trump claiming it is desperate to reach a deal.

Indirect talks between the US and Iran are being mediated by Pakistan, Türkiye, and Egypt, the foreign ministers of the three countries have confirmed, stating they have been passing messages between Washington and Tehran.

Egypt’s Ishaq Dar dismissed the “unnecessary speculation” in the media regarding the peace talks and said that negotiations “are taking place” through intermediaries and that Washington’s 15-point proposal was delivered to Tehran in exactly this manner.



Iranian media have also reported that Iran has already formally replied to the US proposal and is currently awaiting a response. Although Tehran has not released any official statements regarding Washington’s plan, Iranian officials have reportedly dismissed it, demanding concessions from the US.

One senior Iranian official described the proposal to Reuters as “one-sided and unfair.”

“In brief, the proposal suggests that Iran would relinquish its ability ‌to ⁠defend itself in exchange for a vague plan to lift sanctions,” the official said, stressing that the plan lacks the minimum requirements for success.

Tehran has denied holding direct talks with Washington while US President Donald Trump has claimed that the Iranian leadership is desperate to reach a deal but fears retribution from its own people if it publicly admits it.

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19 COMMENTS

  1. While useless talks about “talks” and “pretend” negotiations continue, there’s a deafening silence in mainstream media on the major divide between the East and the West on oil prices. The West is severely disadvantaged because they have not fully accounted for the oil crisis

    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/paper-oil-versus-actual-oil-the-market-has-broken-two-wildly-different-prices-for-oil?catid=17&Itemid=101

  2. “NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING… THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO.” – Trump
    Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt are brokering the Iran peace — not NATO, not the EU, not Britain. Trump amplified Pakistan’s offer to host talks on Truth Social. Iran rejected the 15-point plan publicly but is engaging through intermediaries privately. Pakistan’s army chief is on the phone with Trump, Turkey and Egypt are coordinating through back channels, and Iran is engaging through intermediaries — while every NATO capital sits on the sidelines. The old Atlantic Alliance didn’t just lose its seat at the table. There is no table for them anymore.

  3. Yeah, talk it up Trump. “Iran is begging to make a deal”

    Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Kuschner and Witkoff are such elloquent and honest brokers of deals.

    It seems Israeli interests will need to keep being hypersonicked until the gaslighting actually turns into grown up talks

  4. The US is trying to frame the narrative to make the US look like the victor. I get it as its their people’ s reaction they are concerned about. Only approximately 20% of the US public support this. Trump came to office on a promise of peace and commercial prosperity, not war.

    The reality too, is this is becoming a war of attrition. The US unlike Iran has to consider fragile supply chains, weapons stocks dispersed across the globe, the co-operation of partner states, whose support is predicated on a quick victory not their nations being drawn into a protracted war, that see’s their assets damaged and people injured or killed. Then there’s the white elephant in the room, the issue of the Straight and commerce passing through it.

  5. Trump gives Palestine back to the Palestinians, removes the illegal state of Isis Ra El. Saves face, but still gets to sit on Old Smokey for his War Crimes, him and others, Jesus is King.. Not Ba,al…..

  6. As usual, the useless media ignores fundamental reality and ignores the shift in the doctrine of confrontation and the development of other fronts in this war – this is what the dumb yanks desperately want to avoid and why they are now feverishly seeking negotiations with Iran. There are several parties to this war, not just Iran. Saudi Arabia’s attacks against Yemen could not prevent Yemen’s entry into the war resulting in a transformation in combat doctrine—from sporadic strikes in the Red Sea to a strategy of sustained disruption. As usual, the morons in mainstream media fail to predict the imposition of future tolls on transit thru Suez Canal which are favourable to the opponents of Usraeli-Western imperialism https://en.ypagency.net/387893

  7. Meanwhile Hezbollah has much more fun than Trump while making tank warfare extinct after 100+ years since the tank was invented

    https://southfront.press/hezbollahs-drones-hit-merkava-tanks-as-its-rockets-kill-another-israeli-videos/

    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/israel-largest-tank-losses-40yrs-ambushes-21-merkava

    https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-analysts-question-tanks-cost-effectiveness-drone

    Will our NZ government start investing in drone swarms? Or will NZ wait another 100 years to catch up with reality?

    • I won’t be wishing for a big drone uptake by the defence force.

      You just don’t know who could be declared a terrorist tomorrow, hunted by AI controlled drones.

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