Vance headed Friday to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. ADVERTISEMENTIran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency, close to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, claimed that the talks set for Saturday would not happen unless Israel stopped its attacks in Lebanon. Before his departure, Vance said he believed the negotiations with Iran will be "positive." Israel and Lebanon will have direct negotiationsIsrael's insistence that the ceasefire in Iran does not include a pause in its fighting with Hezbollah has threatened to sink the deal. In other developments, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in several Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war.

Source: The Telegraph April 10, 2026 18:30 UTC