Locals watch as a motorcade carrying US Vice President JD Vance rides past them, before the scheduled US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad on April 11, 2026. American and Iranian officials were holding face-to-face talks in Pakistan on April 11, the most significant since the 1979 Islamic revolution as the foes try to end a war that plunged the Middle East into violence and rocked the world economy. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)