{"id":63214,"date":"2026-04-12T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T05:31:10","slug":"jd-vance-us-iran-peace-talks-collapse-as-tehran-rejects-nuclear-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63214\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance: US-Iran peace talks collapse as Tehran rejects nuclear terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" alt=\"JD Vance: US-Iran peace talks collapse as Tehran rejects nuclear terms\" title=\"JD Vance: US-Iran peace talks collapse as Tehran rejects nuclear terms\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/webp-1775970334.webp\" data-rjs=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP<\/p>\n<p> US Vice President JD Vance said negotiations between the United States and Iran ended early Sunday without a peace deal after the Iranians refused to accept American terms not to develop a nuclear weapon. <\/p>\n<p>The high-stakes talks in Pakistan ended after 21 hours, Vance said, with the vice president in constant communication with US President Donald Trump and others in the administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jakartaglobe.id\/news\/us-vice-president-jd-vance-says-talks-with-iran-ended-without-an-agreement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jakartaglobe.id.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the simple fact is that 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 told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u00a0delegation, 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 Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.The war with Iran started at the end of February, and the extensive talks ended after 21 hours. The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/hungarys-2026-election-a-geopolitical-showdown-for-orbns-fifth-term\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on April 7 for negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We Win,&#8221; Says Trump<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Saturday, Trump claimed military victory against Iran and downplayed the importance of ongoing ceasefire negotiations involving Vice President JD Vance because \u201cregardless what happens we win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see what happens \u2013 maybe they make a deal, maybe they don\u2019t,\u201d the president said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. From the standpoint of America, we win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump acknowledged \u201cvery deep negotiations\u201d with Iran. But he also said the US\u00a0military was searching for mines in the Strait of Hormuz, which still remained effectively closed to most freighters carrying oil and natural gas out of the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/leyla-sirinova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Leyla  \u015eirinova<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP US Vice President JD Vance said negotiations between the United States and Iran ended early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[614,12346,38,34,1096,23939,2394,69,51,153,23434],"class_list":{"0":"post-63214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-collapse","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-jd-vance","13":"tag-nuclear-terms","14":"tag-pa","15":"tag-tehran","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-iran-peace-talks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116390099896978325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}