US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that talks with Iran could resume in Pakistan in the coming days after several rounds of negotiations over the weekend failed to yield results, leaving key issues that threaten to end the lull in fighting unaddressed, even as Israel vowed that its campaign against the Islamic Republic wouldn’t end until the regime has fallen.

Trump, in an interview with the New York Post, said that the outlet’s foreign policy correspondent, who is currently in Islamabad, “should stay there, really, because something could be happening over the next two days.”

He told the newspaper that Pakistan’s Army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was doing a “great job” on the talks.

“He’s fantastic, and therefore it’s more likely that we go back there,” Trump said.

Less than an hour earlier, however, Trump had given the Post a more pessimistic estimation, telling it that talks with Iran were progressing slowly and that if a meeting were to happen, it would likely not be in Pakistan.

“Things are happening, but a little bit slow… I don’t think it’ll be [in Pakistan] that we have our meeting,” he said. “We’ll probably go to another location. We have another location in mind.”

Pressed on whether the US was considering Turkey as the next host, Trump responded: “No, somebody more central. Europe, maybe.”

It was unclear whether there was an actual development in the talks in the time between his two interviews.

Sources also told Reuters that negotiating teams from the US and Iran could return to Islamabad this week to resume talks to end the war.

But as Trump turned his attention to negotiating with Iran’s leadership amid the shaky ceasefire, Mossad Chief David Barnea suggested that Israel wouldn’t consider its campaign over until that same leadership is replaced.

“Our mission has yet to be completed,” Barnea said at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. “We didn’t think that this mission would be completed immediately with the end of the battles. But we planned intensively for our campaign to continue and achieve results even in the period after the strikes in Tehran.”

Mossad’s responsibility in the matter, he said, will end “only when this radical regime is replaced.”

“The regime that wants to destroy us must disappear from the world,” he said of Iran’s leadership, which is avowed to destroying Israel.

Regime change in Iran, said the spy chief, “is our mission. We will not stand by, watching, in the........

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