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The United States and Iran have failed to reach a deal after high-stakes talks in the Pakistani capital, with Vice President JD Vance saying Tehran refused to accept Washington\u2019s terms after 21 hours of talks in Islamabad.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that\u2019s bad news for Iran much more than it\u2019s bad news for the United States of America,\u201d Vice President JD Vance, the head of the US delegation, told reporters shortly before he left Islamabad after the highest-level meeting between Washington and Tehran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Vance said Iran chose \u201cnot to accept our terms\u201d, adding that the US needs to see a \u201cfundamental commitment\u201d from Tehran to not develop nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s John Hendren, reporting from Washington DC, said the fact that President Donald Trump sent JD Vance showed the US was taking these talks seriously.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that Vance left doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that the talks are over,\u201d he said, adding that the main sticking points seem to be the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran continues to control, and the gaps on the nuclear issue.<\/p>\n \u201cThe US has been negotiating with Iran over time; those talks can continue remotely, and leaving those talks may simply be a hard stance,\u201d the Al Jazeera correspondent added.<\/p>\n Hendren said the US is demanding not just that Iran pledge that it won\u2019t develop nuclear weapons, but also that it will not even try to access those tools, adding that such gaps made the talks in the mid-2010s take years to negotiate.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday that no one had expected that talks with the US would reach an agreement in one session.<\/p>\n \u201cNaturally, from the beginning, we should not have expected to reach an agreement in a single session. No one had such an expectation,\u201d ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, according to state broadcaster IRIB.<\/p>\n He said Tehran was \u201cconfident that contacts between us and Pakistan, as well as our other friends in the region, will continue\u201d.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s Tohid Asadi, reporting from Tehran, said the Iranian side did not share information about the technicalities or other details pertaining to the points of controversy in the talks.<\/p>\n \u201cPreviously, the domain of the talks between Washington and Iran was concentrated upon the nuclear dossier and stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and that was a matter of controversy in the previous rounds of negotiations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cBut this time, we\u2019re dealing with a rather comprehensive approach when it comes to other issues \u2013 and obviously, with that comprehensiveness comes other controversial issues,\u201d said the Al Jazeera correspondent, adding that rivals sides are looking to address many subjects from the Strait of Hormuz to security assurances.<\/p>\n Pakistan, meanwhile, called on the US and Iran to uphold their commitment to the ceasefire and continue efforts to achieve a durable peace.<\/p>\n \u201cOn behalf of Pakistan, I would like to express gratitude to the two sides for appreciating Pakistan\u2019s efforts to achieve a ceasefire and its mediator role. We hope that the two sides continue with a positive spirit to achieve durable peace and prosperity for the entire region and beyond,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s Osama Bin Javaid, reporting from Islamabad, said that in the framework proposed by Iran before the talks, there was no mention of a complete surrender of nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n \u201cBut what the US is essentially asking Iran now is that they give up their right to any nuclear programme, even for medical purposes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a sea of mistrust that they are trying to build bridges over, and statements like this and leaving the negotiations with an ultimatum are not going to help bridge those divides,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The US and Israel launched a war on Iran on February 28 that expanded to the wider Middle East, with Tehran carrying out retaliatory attacks on Israel and neighbouring Gulf countries hosting US assets. More than 2,000 people have been killed, and military and civilian areas damaged in the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.<\/p>\n The US-Israeli war came despite several rounds of talks between Washington and Tehran. Omar, the mediator, said the war was launched despite a deal was \u2018within reach\u2019. Experts have said that the war on Iran violated international laws. A landmark nuclear deal signed between the US and Iran in 2015 was scrapped under Trump\u2019s first term in as president.<\/p>\n The war also caused a global energy crisis after Iran put a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which some 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil and gas exports pass.<\/p>\n The US delegation, led by Vance, and the Iranian delegation, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, had discussed how to advance a ceasefire already threatened by deep disagreements and Israel\u2019s continued attacks against the Hezbollah group in Lebanon.<\/p>\n Israeli strikes have continued across southern Lebanon, with at least six people killed in Tyre district.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The United States and Iran have failed to reach a deal after high-stakes talks in the Pakistani capital, with Vice President JD Vance saying Tehran refused to accept Washington\u2019s terms after 21 hours of talks in Islamabad. \u201cThe bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that\u2019s bad news for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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