Live: US delegation arrives in Pakistan for peace talks with Iranian officials

A US ​government plane carrying ​top US officials landed in the ​Pakistani ‌capital Islamabad ⁠on Saturday for ‌peace talks with Iran. Washington and ​Tehran are ‌set to begin negotiations to permanently end the six-week-old Iran ​war that has killed thousands of people across ​the Middle ​East, disrupted ​energy supplies, fed inflation ​and slowed the global economy. Read our live-blog to follow the events as they unfold. Yesterday's key developments: • US Vice President JD Vance left Washington for US-Iran peace talks being held in Pakistan. • Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in his latest written message the Islamic republic did not want war with the United States and Israel, but would protect its rights as a nation, state television reported Thursday. • Hezbollah claimed responsibility for overnight rocket attacks targeting Israel's Ashdod naval base with missiles, two days after deadly Israeli airstrikes on Beirut left more than 300 people dead. • An ⁠Iranian ​negotiating delegation led ​by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf ​arrived ‌in Islamabad for ‌peace talks with ⁠the United States, Iranian media reported , ‌adding that negotiations would begin if ‌Washington accepted Tehran's "preconditions." (FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)