India, April 27 -- US President Donald Trump said he told his top envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran on Saturday. "If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!!" Trump said on social media.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won't negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its ports. Pezeshkian told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a phone call Saturday night that the US "should first remove operational obstacles, including the blockade," to allow a new round of negotiations, according to the ISNA and Tasnim news agencies in Iran.

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