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Kushner, Witkoff — not Vance — heading to Pakistan for ‘direct talks’ with Iran, White House says
CNBC ^ | Apr 24 20269:48 AM EDT | Kevin Breuninger

Posted on 04/24/2026 4:40:27 PM PDT by Kleon

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will head to Pakistan on Saturday morning to engage in “direct talks” with their Iranian counterparts, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Friday.

“The Iranians reached out” and asked for an in-person conversation, as President Donald Trump had asked them to do, Leavitt said on Fox News.


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1 posted on 04/24/2026 4:40:27 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Kleon

Iran already said they are not sending anyone so why are we even going, just bomb their asses already seriously..they only understand violence nothing else


2 posted on 04/24/2026 4:42:15 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Kleon

What could be more admirable than “reaching out?”


3 posted on 04/24/2026 4:46:43 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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To: Kleon

What’s there to talk about? It’s Iran, they don’t negotiate.


4 posted on 04/24/2026 4:53:44 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: Kleon

Get rid of the IRGC by getting Pakistan and the Gulf States to invade Iran.


5 posted on 04/24/2026 5:14:15 PM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: Sarah Barracuda

True. It’s just a waste of time and it’s almost Saturday in Pakistan.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-updates-trump-israel-falklands-b2964135.html


6 posted on 04/24/2026 5:15:34 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Kleon

How many more “direct talks” are we going to have? This could last indefinitely, with more and more ‘extensions’, as Iran starts to rebuild.
No nuclear weapons, ever, and turn over your uranium. Sign on the dotted line. If not, then you become a non-functional country, courtesy of the American military.
Two weeks, then all hell breaks loose.


7 posted on 04/24/2026 5:17:48 PM PDT by Deo volente ("Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” -Niccolò Machiavelli)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

........................”Get Pakistan and the Gulf States to invade Iran.”

Great idea, but how do you get them to do that?


8 posted on 04/24/2026 5:19:31 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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To: Kleon

Patience Grasshopper


9 posted on 04/24/2026 5:19:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: JZelle

“What’s there to talk about? It’s Iran, they don’t negotiate.“

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You are absolutely right.
Iran never negotiates.
They might demand that the US surrenders, that’s all.
The only way to end the Iran problem is a true regime change there. Any other idea is doomed to fail.


10 posted on 04/24/2026 5:20:29 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: Kleon

I’m surprised Pakistan would let those two Israel agents into the country.


11 posted on 04/24/2026 5:31:30 PM PDT by McGruff
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Iran already said they are not sending anyone so why are we even going, just bomb their asses already seriously..they only understand violence nothing else

They're not sending anybody because everytime a meeting is set Israel blows them up when they get there.

12 posted on 04/24/2026 5:48:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If it ain't fun, you ain't doin' it right.)
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To: Kleon

Fake negotiators to attend fake negotiation...news at 11


13 posted on 04/24/2026 5:55:57 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Kleon

I heard it was over security concerns.

-SB


14 posted on 04/24/2026 5:59:48 PM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Snowybear

Vance’s is our #2. His time is too valuable. You do not send him out on that long flight a 2nd time. A summit happens only after all details have been agreed upon. This is not the case. The carrot has already been offered.


15 posted on 04/24/2026 6:08:16 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Kleon

I don’t think there is any point in bombing infrastructure . Xi rather every target should be the irgc. Figure out where they all sleep an hit them at night. Then stop. Figure out new irgc targets and hit them again


16 posted on 04/24/2026 6:09:54 PM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Just keep choking them out


17 posted on 04/24/2026 6:22:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: Kleon

all these discussions just make USA look weak and gullible
and frankly stupid

“fool me once, shame on you. fool me 666 times, shame on me.”


18 posted on 04/24/2026 6:38:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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They are serious this time, they’re sending the people in charge.


19 posted on 04/24/2026 6:41:18 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Kleon

Personally i think Trump’s foreign policy sucks. Ukraine? Now a war in Iran that he thinks will pan out with making a deal with lunatics? really. Trumper make America great again. Bomb and degrade Iran’s nuke capabilities, make it costly, DOGE our CIA so you can get info from people that don’t want to kill you. Make Vance do some work and get recission packages passed and at least kill one agency?


20 posted on 04/24/2026 6:49:13 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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