The US and Iran will return to Pakistan in the coming days for a new round of negotiations, Reuters reported on Tuesday morning.

According to four sources cited by Reuters, the two countries’ negotiating teams will meet again in Islamabad, the Pakistani city where the first – unsuccessful – round of talks was held.

It is noted that, according to what Donald Trump has announced, the deadline for Tehran to reach an agreement with Washington expires in nine days.

On Monday, the American president stated that Iran “called this morning” and that “they would like to reach a deal.”

A U.S. official, referring to Trump’s statement, said that contacts between the United States and Iran are ongoing and that progress is being made in efforts to reach an agreement.

When asked to comment, White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said that the U.S. position did not change during the meeting in Islamabad.

“Iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon, and President Trump’s negotiating team remained firm on this limit and many others. Contacts are continuing with the aim of reaching an agreement,” she said.

“The ball is in Iran’s court,” says Vance

“The ball is in the Iranians’ court,” said U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Monday, following the failure of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, over the weekend—talks in which he personally participated. He stressed that the administration of President Donald Trump is demanding—among other things—that all enriched uranium in the possession of the Islamic Republic be handed over.

“We want this material to leave the country,” and for Washington to have control over it,” he told Fox News, adding that it is necessary to ensure, through “verifications,” that Iran will not produce highly enriched uranium in the future.

The U.S. vice president led the American delegation in what were unprecedented but ultimately unsuccessful talks with Iranian officials in Pakistan, aimed at ending the war in the Middle East.

JD Vance once again expressed U.S. skepticism.

“It’s one thing for the Iranians to say they will not acquire a nuclear weapon; it’s another to establish the necessary mechanisms to guarantee that this will not happen,” he told the network favored by the American right, reiterating that he presented Washington’s “red lines” to his counterparts.