India, April 10 -- While US President Donald Trump was talking about "reloading" warships, and claiming that Iranians are "alive today" only to negotiate, the regime in Tehran on Friday set a two-pronged condition before any talks can be held. This, even as Vice President JD Vance was already on a plane to Islamabad for talks scheduled for Saturday.

The two demands are: Iranian assets frozen because of ongoing US and global sanctions must be unblocked; and a ceasefire be reached in Lebanon too. Iran's ‌parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf claimed on X that these two conditions were already agreed upon with the US, but the talks won't start until these are fulfilled.

Iran has been unable to obtain tens of billions of dollars ...