Following the failure of ceasefire negotiations with the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan, the Iranian team reportedly encountered serious security risks its approach to Tehran. The group, which included Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, changed their flight midway and took a different route to reach Tehran by bus and train due to increased caution, Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi told the Lebanese news outlet Al-Mayadeen.
The Iranian team travelled to Islamabad with Marandi, a professor at Tehran University. When the Iranian delegation returned from meetings in Pakistan, he informed the Lebanese news source that they felt extremely frightened.

"We received direct threats while en route to Islamabad that our plane might be attacked," he said, noting that the Iranian delegation encountered serious security risks while travelling to Islamabad for talks with the United States.Consequently, the delegation surreptitiously changed flights on their way back to Tehran," he claimed. The political analyst stated that after the Iranian delegation's plane abruptly changed course and made an emergency landing in the Iranian city of Mashhad, the members proceeded to Tehran by bus, rail, and automobile.On Tuesday, Marandi told Al-Mayadeen, "We don't trust the United States and we are also being very busy preparing ourselves for the next round of war."

He went on to say that Iran "always knew the United States was deceitful" and that the country is strengthening its armed forces "while we are at the negotiating table."
Iran and the US Could Go Back to Islamabad
Days after the initial peace talks concluded without a breakthrough, US and Iranian negotiating teams may return to Pakistan later this week to continue talks to resolve the Middle East conflict, according to Reuters, which quoted Iranian and Pakistani officials.
The proposals, which the Iranian and Pakistani officials shared under the condition of anonymity, were not immediately confirmed by US authorities.A request for the delegations to return to Islamabad to continue talks has been forwarded to Washington and Tehran, according to a source involved in the negotiations. Both nations might return as early as the end of this week, though a date had not yet been set.
"The upcoming rounds of talks can come sometime later this week or earlier next week," an official at the Iranian embassy in Islamabad stated. However, nothing has been decided upon yet.
A senior Iranian source had earlier told Reuters that "no firm date has been set, with the delegations keeping Friday through Sunday open."
Islamabad contacted Iran, according to a senior Pakistani official, "and we got positive response that they will be open to second round of talks."

According to the official and another Pakistani source, Islamabad is in contact with both parties over the next round's schedule, and the meeting is probably going to happen this coming weekend.
Four days after a ceasefire was announced, last weekend's summit in Pakistan's capital to settle the US-Iranian issue ended without any progress. It was the most senior interaction since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the first direct meeting between US and Iranian officials in almost ten years.