US and Iran have not reached an agreement, Vance says
US Vice President JD Vance said there was no deal with Iran after 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan. Vance has left Islamabad after talks with Iran ended without a deal, saying he has put forward a “final and best offer”.osen not to accept US terms, which he insisted had been "quite flexible."
US Vice President JD Vance said there was no deal with Iran after 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan. He said Iranian negotiators had chosen not to accept US terms, which he insisted had been “quite flexible.”
US Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that peace talks with Iran had failed to bring about an agreement between the parties that would end the war permanently, adding that that was bad news more so for Iran than for the US.
Talking to reporters in Islamabad following 21 hours of negotiations, Vance said he would return to the US without a peace deal.
“We’ve had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That’s the good news,” he said. “The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America.”
Vance added that the key question was whether Tehran was willing to refrain from developing nuclear weapons, saying: “We haven’t seen that yet. We hope that we will.”
Vance, however, did not mention the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, another major sticking point in the negotiations.
The US vice president said he had talked with President Donald Trump half a dozen times during the talks.
Earlier on Saturday, Trump said that it did not matter if the US and Iran made a deal or not. “The reason is because we’ve won,” Trump said.
– Inputs from Agencies
