BBC announces that direct talks have started between Iran and the US in presence of Pakistani mediators in the same room

Robert-Walker · 2026-04-11T14:14:28+00:00

This is from the BBC. They are face to face in the same room with Pakistani mediators. This is very unusual and the BBC’s Lyse Doucet says “this is a sign of...

Robert-Walker

MinaBean Great glad to hear it helped. Yes when worried it’s natural to have nightmares. The talks are going far far better than anyone expected in advance.

Well at least anyone commenting publicly. They seem to have been more advanced privately than anyone realized in publicly shared information - there is no way that the two sides would have sent such large teams to preliminary talks about talks if that is what they expected.

Robert-Walker

Last session ended at some time before 3.24 am Pakistan time. Now back to exchanging drafts with their experts present.

That’s promising that they are working on drafts.

TWEET Another round of trilateral talks between #Iran, the US, and Pakistan has concluded in Islamabad. Both sides are once again exchanging drafts with their expert teams present.

And they will continue for another round tomorrow.

This is VERY promising that they have at least some points of agreement and something substantial to work from.

TWEET: Former Pakistani diplomat to the US Maleeha Lodhi says expectations from the Islamabad talks between the US and Iran should be realistic, stressing that “we should recognise that diplomacy is not an event, it’s a process, it takes time.”

The main accounts I’m following right now on these discussions are:

https://x.com/IranNuances
https://x.com/asmashirazi
https://x.com/SaraMassoumi
https://x.com/vali_nasr
https://x.com/CMShehbaz
https://x.com/lrozen
https://x.com/bbclysedoucet

Robert-Walker

BBC says the White House tells them the talks are still on-going. That would be very surprising if they are, 5 am in Pakistan.

Maybe continuing in a smaller group of negotiators??

Robert-Walker

Written up all of this as a debunk

BLOG: Direct high level talks between Iran and the US in presence of Pakistani mediators in the same room
— for first time since 1979
— Four sessions
— last one 1.30
— 3.30 am!
You can read it here:
https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/direct-high-level-talks-between-iran

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