U.S.-Iran Talks in Pakistan: Tensions Rise

0:00It's April 20, California news today starts now, AI-powered and ready. President Trump just announced the U.S. team is heading to Pakistan on Monday for fresh talks with Iran as the ceasefire deadline hits in just days. Vice President Bantz, Jared Kushner and Steve Wykov are en route to Islamabad right now, touching down tonight. Iran hasn't committed to showing up yet, with state media hinting the meeting might not even happen based on unnamed sources. Iran's are high off their coast, too, where U.S. Central Command dropped video of the destroyer USS. Spruance warning and then firing on an Iranian flag ship before seizing it, the first bust since the naval blockade kicked in last week. Iran's president slammed the blockade as a legal and provocative, while their legal medicine chief put the war death toll at 3,075-2,875 men, 496 women, and 383 kids under 18. Trump hit back on true social this morning, denying Israel pushed him into the fight, saying

1:04the October 7 results locked in his long-held view, that Iran can never get a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, Pakistan's wrapping up security in Islamabad closing roads to host these talks if they go down, keeping everyone watching close as the clock ticks.