{"id":531661,"date":"2026-04-15T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:56:09","slug":"trump-says-talks-could-resume-this-week-as-vance-says-us-wants-grand-bargain-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531661\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says talks could resume this week as Vance says US wants &#8216;grand bargain&#8217; with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should stay in Islamabad &#8211; something could be happening, Trump told reporterpublished at 06:27 BST<\/p>\n<p>06:27 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks between the US and Iran could restart &#8220;in the next two days&#8221;, Donald Trump has said, in an interview with the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/14\/us-news\/president-trump-tells-the-post-us-iran-talks-could-be-happening-over-next-two-days\/\" class=\"ssrcss-ztter6-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> New York Post., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The paper said that, in an initial phone interview, the US president said discussions were &#8220;happening, but, you know, a little bit slow&#8221; &#8211; before indicating more talks could happen in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About half an hour later, the paper says, Trump called their reporter back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You should stay there [Islamabad, where talks previously happened], really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we\u2019re more inclined to go there,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It\u2019s more likely, you know why? Because the field marshal is doing a great job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump was referring to Pakistan Field Marshal Gen Asim Munir &#8211; who he has previously called his &#8220;favourite&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump seen holding two bags of McDonald's food\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f979c8c4-8de9-4e41-a3f0-b85bdde7d79b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"966\" height=\"543\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donald Trump had McDonald&#8217;s food delivered to the Oval Office on Monday in a bid to promote his lowering of taxes<br \/>\non tips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You should stay in Islamabad &#8211; something could be happening, Trump told reporterpublished at 06:27 BST 06:27 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-531661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}