{"id":48311,"date":"2026-04-12T06:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48311"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:13:59","slug":"no-deal-vance-walks-away-from-iran-talks-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48311","title":{"rendered":"No Deal! Vance Walks Away From Iran Talks in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Vice President JD Vance said on Saturday evening that the U.S. delegation has decided to leave peace talks with Iran in Pakistan after the Islamist regime refused to agree to America\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Speaking alongside White House Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, Vice President Vance said that after 21 hours of talks, it became clear that no agreement with Iran could be reached and that U.S. negotiators have therefore decided to walk away from the table.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWe have had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians, that\u2019s the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that\u2019s bad news for Iran, much more than it is for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States of America without an agreement,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve made very clear what our red lines are, what things we\u2019re willing to accommodate them on, and what things we\u2019re not willing to accommodate them on, and we\u2019ve made that as clear as we possibly could, and may have chosen not to accept our terms,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks in Islamabad, Pakistan\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fwqBgAhZPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Vice President refused to divulge all of the details of the talks, but said that Washington needs to see a \u201cfirm commitment\u201d from Tehran that the regime will not seek to build a nuclear weapon or the tools that would allow it to quickly build a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>\u201cThat is a core goal of the President of the United States and that is what we have tried to achieve in these negotiations. Their nuclear program, such that it is, the enrichment facilities that they had before, they have been destroyed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the simple question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now, but for the long term? We haven\u2019t seen that yet. We hope that we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance told reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/iran\/live-blog\/live-updates-trump-iran-hormuz-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-talks-pakistan-rcna285140\/rcrd107715?canonicalCard=true\">per<\/a> NBC News, that the U.S. delegation left the talks with a \u201cvery simple proposal, a method of understanding that is our final and best offer. We\u2019ll see if the Iranians accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2042953646531293291\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/2042953646531293291\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The talks in Pakistan were quickly arranged earlier this week after Iran relented \u2014 reportedly under pressure from their allies in Communist China \u2014 and agreed to a ceasefire just hours before President Trump\u2019s Tuesday evening deadline for further strikes on national infrastructure, including bridges and power facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">While President Trump said that any peace agreement would require Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program, the maximalist \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/08\/world\/middleeast\/iran-10-point-proposal-trump-us-ceasefire.html\">ten-point plan<\/a>\u201d put out by the Iranians maintained that Tehran had a right to enrich uranium.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>Besides the fate of the Islamist regime\u2019s nuclear program, the most pressing issue following the breakdown of talks will likely be the status of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The critical waterway, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman through which around one-fifth of global oil supplies flow, has been effectively shut down since early last month after Iran claimed to have released mines into the Strait.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday,\u00a0U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said that\u00a0two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers, the USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy, began preparations to start a minesweeping mission to clear the Strait.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult under normal circumstances, the operation is reportedly further complicated because Iran reportedly lost track of where some of the mines were placed, either by failing to initially log their locations or by failing to secure them properly to prevent drift.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2043047673293373538\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/2043047673293373538\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">Follow Kurt Zindulka on X:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @KurtZindulka<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\" data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\">or e-mail to: kzindulka@breitbart.com<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/04\/11\/no-deal-vance-walks-away-from-iran-talks-in-pakistan-after-tehran-rejects-american-requirements-for-peace\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance said on Saturday evening that the U.S. delegation has decided to leave peace talks with Iran in Pakistan after the Islamist regime&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}