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Islamabad7:46 a.m. April 12
Beirut5:46 a.m. April 12
Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Fail to Reach Agreement After Marathon Peace Talks, Vance Says
After a meeting in Islamabad that lasted 21 hours, Vice President JD Vance said the Iranian delegation had not accepted American terms for ending the war.
Tyler PagerFarnaz FassihiElian Peltier and Aaron Boxerman
Tyler Pager and Elian Peltier reported from Islamabad, Pakistan.
Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that 21 hours of peace talks in Pakistan, between the United States and Iran had failed to produce an agreement to end the war, leaving the question of what happens after the current two-week cease-fire up in the air.
“They have chosen not to accept our terms,” Mr. Vance said in a brief news conference in Islamabad, though he left open the possibility that terms could still be reached. “We leave here with a very simple proposal: a method of understanding that is our final and best offer,” he added. “We’ll see if the Iranians accept it.”
Ali Gholhaki, a conservative analyst close to the Iranian government, said on social media that talks fell apart because the United States demanded zero enrichment, removal of nearly 900 pounds of stockpile uranium from the country and a new demand of U.S. “management of the security of the Strait of Hormuz on their own terms.” Mr. Gholhaki said the United States also provided no commitment to end Israel’s bombing of Lebanon. “It seems the Americans didn’t come to negotiate!” he said.
Air Force Two is rolling for takeoff from Islamabad. After marathon negotiations, Vice President Vance is leaving Pakistan with no deal with the Iranians.
An Iranian state television broadcast said that the United States’ “demanding too much” was an obstacle to reaching an agreement. The report said the major sticking points were the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s rights to enrich uranium and “other issues.” “Despite various creative approaches by the Iranian team, the Americans’ overreach and unreasonable demands prevented talks from advancing,” the state television report said.
Many Iranians were taking to social media and sending text messages to one another expressing anxiety about Vice President JD Vance’s announcement that no deal was reached with Iran. Many Iranians had been watching and following the talks closely, hoping for a diplomatic breakthrough that would end the war and perhaps bring them badly needed economic relief with sanctions lifted. “May God help us, I guess this means we are back to war again,” wrote Amir Hossein, a resident of Tehran, in a text message.
As Vance was detailing the impasse in negotiations, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were watching a video montage of UFC fighting at a sports arena in Miami.
It was always a stretch that Vice President Vance was going to get an agreement in a single negotiating session. The 2015 agreement with Iran took about two years to negotiate. While the conditions today are different, since the two nations are at essentially at war, the complexity of the issues, the centrality of the nuclear program to Iran’s national identity and the arguments over control of the Strait of Hormuz all suggest a long negotiation.
Vance’s statement that they need an “affirmative commitment” not to build a nuclear weapon was odd, given that Iran has often made that commitment, including in writing under the 2015 nuclear accord with the Obama administration. Iran is also a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, whose core bargain is that it can receive nuclear technology as long as it commits to not building a weapon, and allows international inspections.
But Vance’s emphasis on assurances that Iran would not “seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon” is likely the key element to what is blocking an agreement. That would require Iran to commit to never to enrich uranium and to turn over its current stockpile of nuclear fuel, starting with the 970 pounds of near-bomb-grade uranium, stored largely at Isfahan. Without those concessions — no stockpile and no enrichment on Iranian soil — the two sides appear to remain at odds.
“We leave here with a very simple proposal: a method of understanding that is our final and best offer. We’ll see if the Iranians accept it,” Vice President Vance says before departing.
Vice President Vance exits and does not answer questions about next steps, including the Strait of Hormuz and the future of the conflict.
Vice President Vance says he doesn’t want to negotiate in public and won’t list all terms, but they need to see an “affirmative commitment” that Iran won’t seek a nuclear weapon, or the tools with which to achieve one.
“They have chosen not to accept our terms,” Vice President Vance says
Vice President Vance says “the bad news is that we have not reached an agreement”
Vice President Vance is expected to address reporters shortly at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad.
We’re now crossed 4 a.m. local time in Islamabad and Vice President JD Vance is still in negotiations with the Iranians. The American delegation arrived at the Serena Hotel shortly after noon on Saturday, but the press has not seen Vance or other senior officials since they arrived in Pakistan hours earlier. During the more than 15 hours of talks, the White House has not provided any details about the status of the negotiations.
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