Iran says it shared framework to permanently end war after Pakistan talks

US President Donald Trump said he had canceled the planned trip of his representatives to Islamabad for talks with Iran, saying too much time would have been wasted on travel and saying there was deep infighting and confusion within Iran’s leadership.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump also said the United States held the upper hand and suggested Tehran could still initiate contact if it wanted talks, writing: “If they want to talk, all they have to do is call.”

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Donald Trump canceled a planned trip by US negotiators to Pakistan for talks on Iran, Fox News reported.

The report adds fresh uncertainty to diplomacy that had already appeared in doubt after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Islamabad on Saturday following meetings with Pakistani officials, before any US-Iran session was confirmed.

Iran had also said Araghchi had no plan to meet US officials in Pakistan.

Kamran Khansari-Nia, head of exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi’s office, said in a video posted on the office’s X account that the prince’s security team was independently reviewing all aspects of the Berlin incident and reassessing protection protocols for public events.

He said that during foreign trips, especially in European countries, responsibility for security lies with the police of the host country, and that in this case protection had been the responsibility of German and Berlin police.

Khansari-Nia also said the liquid used in the incident caused no physical harm and that Prince Reza Pahlavi was in full health.

The incident took place on Thursday after Pahlavi’s meetings with German lawmakers and a press conference in Berlin, when he was splashed with red liquid as he left the federal press conference building.

At least two sanctioned ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz from Friday night into Saturday morning, according to MarineTraffic data analyzed by NBC News.

One of them, the tanker Ocean Jet, is on the US sanctions list over its alleged role in facilitating and financing the clandestine sale of Iranian drones. Another, the Curacao-flagged Lumina Ocean, has been under US sanctions since December and is classified by Washington as part of Iran’s “shadow fleet” of petroleum tankers.

NBC’s analysis also said an Iranian cargo ship moved through the strait close to Iran’s coastline.

Alongside those vessels, four cargo ships, an Omani passenger ferry and a Russian pleasure yacht were also tracked in the waterway on Friday and Saturday. The Russian yacht, Nord, had left Dubai on Friday and passed through Hormuz on Saturday on a route south of Larak Island.

Iranian media reported that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Islamabad after meeting Pakistani officials.

He is expected to travel next to Oman and Russia.

Iranian officials had earlier said Araghchi had no plan to meet US officials in Pakistan.