A senior U.S. official denied on Saturday (April 11, 2026) a report saying Washington had agreed to release Iran's frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks.

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Iranian and U.S. delegations have arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan for talks aimed at ending the war in West Asia.

Tehran earlier said any agreement on a permanent end to fighting must include the unfreezing of sanctioned Iranian assets and an end to Israel's war on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

An unnamed "senior Iranian source" told Reuters that the United States had agreed to unfreeze the assets and that the move was directly linked to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

In a message from the White House, a senior U.S. official responded to the report saying, "False. The meetings have not even started yet."

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On Saturday (April 11, 2026), Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance in Islamabad, the former's office said, adding that peace talks to end West Asia war had "commenced."