ERBIL, Kurdisran Region of Iraq – US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he canceled a planned trip by US representatives to Islamabad for talks with the Iranians, adding shortly after that Washington received a “much better” proposal from Tehran after he called off the dispatch.

“Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership.’ Nobody knows who is in charge, including them,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call,” he added.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were scheduled to visit Islamabad on Saturday and engage with Iranian negotiators, the White House said on Friday.

Speaking to reporters after his Truth Social announcement, Trump said: “We’re not going to spend 15 hours in airplanes all the time, going back and forth, to be given a document that was not good enough. So, we’ll deal by telephone, and they can call us any time they want.”

“They gave us a paper that should have been better, and interestingly, immediately when I canceled it [the trip], within 10 minutes we got a new paper that was much better,” he added.

Trump’s initial announcement came minutes after Iranian state media reported that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had departed Islamabad after talking to top Pakistani officials, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

Araghchi left Islamabad on the same day the American delegation was supposed to arrive in the Pakistani capital.

In an X post after his departure, Araghchi described his visit to Pakistan as a “fruitful” one, saying that he shared “Iran's position concerning workable framework to permanently end the war on Iran.”

“Have yet to see if the US is truly serious about diplomacy,” he added.

The Iranian diplomacy chief is currently in Oman’s Muscat, with Moscow being his next destination as Tehran continues consultations with regional allies.

US and Iran representatives met face to face for the first time in decades on April 11, aiming to come to a lasting agreement to stop the war, halted by a fragile two-week ceasefire, initially set to expire on April 22 but was recently extended by Trump.