U.S.-Iran negotiations are reportedly being lined up for Pakistan on July 11, with the nuclear file back on the agenda after days of funeral ceremonies for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The update matters because the crisis has spent the past several days stuck between mourning rituals in Tehran and a shipping fight in the Strait of Hormuz. A new round in Pakistan would move the story back toward the core bargain: sanctions, frozen Iranian assets, and the unresolved nuclear question that the June ceasefire framework pushed into a short negotiating window.
i24NEWS reported, citing Al Arabiya, that the next round of talks is expected to take place in Pakistan on July 11. The report said the agenda includes U.S. sanctions, Iranian funds frozen abroad, and nuclear issues. It also said Tehran’s delegation will be named after Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies.
Xinhua separately reported the same July 11 date, also citing Al Arabiya, and said the round would focus on sanctions, frozen assets, and Iran’s nuclear file. Xinhua noted that the level of Iranian representation is expected to be decided after the funeral.
The report is not yet official
There is an important caveat: the July 11 meeting has not been officially confirmed by Washington, Tehran, or Islamabad. Daily Pakistan reported that none of the three governments had confirmed the talks, while describing Pakistan as a potential venue for a major diplomatic round if the plan holds.
That caveat is the difference between a scheduled summit and a serious reported track. Still, the report is newsworthy because it identifies a possible date, venue, and agenda after several days in which the public story was dominated by Khamenei’s funeral, Hormuz fees, and Iran’s warnings to foreign powers around the strait.
CBS News reported that talks between the United States and Iran are currently paused, according to Qatari and Pakistani mediators, and are expected to resume after the funeral commemorations. President Donald Trump said during a Mount Rushmore speech that the U.S. had given Iran “a week off” for the funeral, adding that Tehran was “dying to settle.”
Pakistan is back in the middle
Pakistan has already played a central role in the crisis diplomacy. Xinhua reported that Iran and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on June 18 aimed at ending the regional war on all fronts, including Lebanon. It also said technical negotiations followed in Switzerland after high-level consultations mediated by Pakistan and Qatar.
That is why a Pakistan-hosted round would not be a random venue shift. It would put the talks back inside the mediation channel that helped produce the interim framework. The difference is the agenda. Earlier updates centered heavily on implementation: shipping through Hormuz, Lebanon, frozen assets, and how the memorandum would be enforced. The new report says the nuclear file will be directly in the room.
That file is the hardest part of the deal. Sanctions relief can be staged. Frozen funds can be released in tranches. Hormuz rules can be argued through coastal-state language and shipping guarantees. But Iran’s nuclear program is the issue that can break the broader settlement if either side decides the other is using the ceasefire window to buy time.
The funeral pause is also a pressure point
The reported timing comes while Tehran is trying to project continuity after Khamenei’s death. Al Jazeera reported that large public commemorations began in Tehran with authorities promoting messages of continuity and vengeance, heavy security around the Grand Mosalla site, and chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
Al Jazeera also reported that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who helped mediate talks between Iran and the United States, was among the senior officials present in Tehran. That detail matters because funeral diplomacy is now blending with war diplomacy. The same period being used for mourning is also being used to size up whether Iran’s new leadership can authorize another negotiating round.
For now, the practical takeaway is simple: the Iran crisis may be shifting from funeral symbolism and Hormuz fee brinkmanship back to the nuclear table. If the July 11 Pakistan round is confirmed, it will be the clearest test yet of whether the June framework can survive contact with the issue it was designed to defer.