Iran War Live Updates: Tehran Pushes Back After
Trump Announces New Round of Talks
President Trump said U.S. negotiators would head
to talks mediated by Pakistan, but Iranian state media said no meeting had been
confirmed. The two-week cease-fire is set to expire this week.
Updated
April 19,
2026, 2:06 p.m. ET38 minutes ago
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Pager Shirin
Hakim and Sanam Mahoozi
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/19/world/iran-us-war-trump-hormuz
Here’s
the latest.
Just days
before a two-week cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran was set to expire,
President Trump and Iranian officials disagreed on Sunday over whether top
officials would meet this week in Pakistan for a second round of negotiations
to end the war.
Hours
after Mr. Trump said American officials would attend talks in Islamabad, the
Pakistani capital, Iranian state media said Tehran had not yet agreed to any
such meeting.
A White
House official said Vice President JD Vance was expected to lead a U.S.
delegation, accompanied by the top Trump aides Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
The negotiations, should they take place, would be the second meeting of
high-level officials since a two-week cease-fire went into effect on April 8.
The
conflicting accounts about the state of the negotiations came as the
economically vital Strait of Hormuz remained all but closed, a move Mr. Trump
characterized in a social media post on Sunday as a “total violation of our
cease-fire.”
Iran said
it had effectively closed the strait, a waterway crucial to the transit of
global energy supplies, in defiance of one of Mr. Trump’s conditions for the
temporary truce between the United States, Israel and Iran.
Mr.
Trump’s announcement of U.S. participation in the talks came with a renewed
threat to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure if the strait is not reopened
and an extension of the cease-fire is not reached.
“We’re
offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “I
hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock
out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.”
The last
round of negotiations, led last weekend by Mr. Vance in Islamabad, ended
without a breakthrough. The meeting had been the highest-level encounter
between Iranian and American leaders in decades.
In recent
days, Mr. Trump had repeatedly said Iran had assented to nearly all of his
demands on the country’s nuclear program. Iranian leaders vehemently denied
that claim, dampening hopes for an immediate agreement.
Here’s
what else we are covering:
Strait of
Hormuz: Iranian forces were maintaining their tight grip on the strait, through
which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil normally travels. Iran declared the
strait open to commercial ships on Friday, as long as they followed a
designated route. But less than a day later Iranian officials said the strait
would stay closed in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s blockade of Iran’s ports. Even
if the strait opened fully, it would take weeks for oil and gas prices to
recover.
Pakistan:
Pakistan appeared to be readying for a fresh round of talks between the U.S.
and Iran, an indication that the talks were likely to go forward even as the
two sides sent conflicting public messages. Islamabad, the capital, went on a
security lockdown on Sunday night and officials said they would deploy 10,000
extra security forces in the city.
Lebanon:
Thousands of displaced Lebanese families were making their way back home to
Lebanon’s south on Sunday soon after a 10-day cease-fire went into effect. The
head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, said this weekend that the group was willing to
cooperate with the Lebanese authorities to end the war with Israel and laid out
a series of conditions for a lasting truce.
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