The U.S. and Iran failed to reach a peace deal after 21 hours of negotiations.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military and government sites.
Trump set a deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face broad strikes on its critical infrastructure. Hours before the deadline expired, Trump said he had agreed to suspend planned bombing for two weeks if Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi then said that "safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported the ceasefire with Iran, but that Lebanon -- where intense Israeli strikes continued -- was not covered by the agreement, despite Iranian protests.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that “the President is dispatching his negotiating team, led by the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, Special Envoy Witkoff and [Jared] Kushner to Islamabad for talks this weekend. The first round of these talks will take place on Saturday morning local time.”
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi described the Israeli strikes on Lebanon as "massacres" that the world is witnessing, in a post on X on Wednesday.
Quoting Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's post on X about the two-week ceasefire, Araghchi highlighted that the agreement includes halting attacks on Lebanon.
He asked the U.S. to choose between "ceasefire or continued war via Israel."
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Israel and the U.S. on Wednesday that if attacks on Lebanon do not stop, it will retaliate and deliver a "regretful response."
"We strongly warn the treacherous American and its Zionist executioner partner that if the aggression against dear Lebanon is not immediately halted, we will fulfill our duty and give a regretful response to the evil aggressors in the region," the IRGC said in a statement, according to the state TV's Telegram channel.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is urging "restraint" amid reports of ceasefire violations, he said in a post on X.
"Violations of ceasefire have been reported at few places across the conflict zone which undermine the spirit of peace process," Sharif said in the post.
"I earnestly and sincerely urge all parties to exercise restraint and respect the ceasefire for two weeks, as agreed upon, so that diplomacy can take a lead role towards peaceful settlement of the conflict," the prime minister added.
Sharif did not say specify where the violations took place.
Sharif tagged accounts for President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others, along with the Iranian president and the Iranian foreign minister.
