US–Iran talks fail: “We made clear what our red lines are,” Vance says departing Islamabad

Diplomatic efforts betwixt the United States and Iran did not effect successful an statement to extremity the struggle successful the Middle East, contempt 21 hours of negotiations held successful Islamabad.

US Vice President J. D. Vance announced that helium departed for Washington aft presenting what helium described arsenic the “final and champion offer” helium could marque to Tehran’s representatives, without immoderate communal crushed being reached.

“We volition instrumentality to the US without having reached a deal,” Mr. Vance said during a little property league successful Islamabad, wherever American and Iranian negotiators had been successful talks from Saturday until the aboriginal hours of Sunday, totaling 21 hours. “I deliberation it is worse quality for Iran than for the US” that the negotiations ended without agreement, helium added.

He peculiarly criticized the deficiency of an “explicit commitment” from Tehran to wantonness its atomic program, arsenic demanded by US President Donald Trump, who—alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—launched the warfare connected February 28, which has outgo thousands of lives and shaken the planetary economy.

“We are leaving aft submitting a precise elemental proposal—an attack that represents our last connection and the champion we could make. We volition spot whether the Iranians take to judge our presumption oregon not,” Vance added, stressing that “we made precise wide what our reddish lines are.”

“US demands unreasonable,” says Tehran

Tehran, for its part, confirmed the extremity of the negotiations, attributing their nonaccomplishment to “unreasonable demands” by the US, according to Iran’s authorities broadcaster IRIB.

“It was wide from the outset that we should not expect to scope an statement successful conscionable 1 session. No 1 expected that,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei connected authorities television.

He besides expressed assurance that contacts with Pakistan and different determination allies would continue.

The talks betwixt the 2 countries—mediated by Pakistan—were unprecedented since the Islamic Revolution successful Iran successful 1979.

Following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire connected Wednesday, their purpose was to scope a lasting truce.

On the US side, Vance was accompanied by White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, advisor and son-in-law to President Trump. Iran was represented by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. The delegation included astir 70 members.

No “formal commitment” from Iran

“The information is simple: we request a ceremonial committedness from them that they volition not prosecute atomic weapons and volition not question the means to physique them quickly,” Vance insisted.

“The question is simple: volition we spot a ceremonial committedness from the Iranians that they volition not make atomic weapons—not conscionable contiguous oregon successful the coming years, but agelong term? We haven’t seen it yet. We anticipation to,” helium added.

Vance placed Iran’s atomic programme astatine the halfway of the failed talks, without addressing the Strait of Hormuz during the property conference.

This captious Gulf shipping route—crucial for planetary vigor supply—has efficaciously been closed since the US-Israel warfare against Iran began, causing superior ripple effects connected the planetary economy, including shortages and terms increases.

The US subject announced that 2 destroyers entered the Strait of Hormuz for preparatory operations up of clearing naval mines. “We are sweeping the strait,” President Trump said.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned they would respond “forcefully” to immoderate warship attempting to transverse the strait.

At the aforesaid time, Trump said helium did not caput whether a woody was reached oregon not. “We defeated them militarily,” helium said, adding that “the US has won” careless of the outcome.

Over 2,000 dormant successful Lebanon

In six weeks, the warfare successful the Middle East has claimed thousands of lives, mostly successful Iran and Lebanon.

After the ceasefire took effect, Israel stated that Lebanon—where it continues its warfare against Hezbollah, backed by Tehran—was not included successful the agreement.

Lebanese authorities reported 2,020 dormant and 6,436 injured since the warfare dispersed to the state connected March 2.

Israeli airstrikes successful confederate Lebanon killed 18 radical yesterday, according to the Health Ministry, portion the Israeli subject said it struck implicit 200 Hezbollah targets successful the past 24 hours.

On Wednesday, Israel carried retired the deadliest bombardments of the warfare successful Lebanon, with 357 radical killed wrong hours, according to the latest authoritative toll.

According to the Lebanese presidency, talks with Israel are scheduled for Tuesday astatine the State Department. Hezbollah has rejected them.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said his extremity is to unafraid bid that volition past “for generations.”