Iran latest: Ceasefire talks still alive despite mounting tensions, Pakistan says

Pakistan is continuing to mediate between the United States and Iran, with indirect ceasefire talks still alive despite mounting tensions between the sides as the war continues, Pakistani officials said. 

The comments from Pakistan Sunday come after Iran failed to show up for another round of peace talks with the U.S. this weekend, prompting President Trump to cancel his envoy's trip. 

Since the war began Feb. 28, at least 3,375 people have been killed in Iran and at least 2,496 people in Lebanon. Also, 23 people have been killed in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Fifteen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon, 13 U.S. service members in the region and six U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have been killed.

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Zawtar El Charqiyeh town of the southern Lebanon, on April 26, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

The Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world's oil was passing daily before the war began, remains closed, threatening the global economy. The U.S. blockade of Iran's ports is also still in place, another sticking point in negotiations. Iran says it won't negotiate until the blockade ends. 

Here's the latest from Sunday: 

Pakistan moves forward with peace talks

9 a.m. ET: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to arrive in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Sunday evening for a second visit in as many days after a short trip to Oman.

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Araghchi was in Islamabad on Saturday and presented Tehran’s position on ending the regional conflict to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and other senior officials.

There were no immediate plans for U.S. envoys to return for talks, according to the Pakistani officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

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Trump says Iran presented new offer

President Trump said Iran presented a new peace offer 10 minutes after he canceled the U.S. team's trip to Pakistan this weekend, but that it "could have been better" and rejected it. 

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"They gave us a paper that could have been better, and interestingly, immediately when I canceled it, within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better," Trump said to reporters on Saturday before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington from Florida.

The President wouldn’t offer specifics about what was in the latest proposal other than saying "they offered a lot." But he stressed that one of his conditions is that Iran "will not have a nuclear weapon."