{"id":63356,"date":"2026-04-12T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63356\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:01:08","slug":"top-updates-vance-says-us-iran-fail-to-reach-peace-deal-tehran-blames-unreasonable-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/63356\/","title":{"rendered":"Top updates: Vance says US, Iran fail to reach peace deal, Tehran blames \u2018unreasonable\u2019 demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said that 21 hours of peace talks between the US and Iran in Pakistani capital Islamabad ended without an agreement<\/a> to end the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have chosen not to accept our terms,\u201d Vance said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

Iran, however, said that the \u201cunreasonable demands<\/a>\u201d by the US had derailed the talks, the country\u2019s state broadcaster IRIB reported.<\/p>\n

The development came four days after Washington and Tehran agreed to a two-week ceasefire<\/a> to allow further negotiations to end the war.<\/p>\n

Israel was not involved in the talks. While its forces have not struck Iran since the ceasefire took effect, they have continued to carry out strikes in Lebanon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:<\/p>\n

At a press conference lasting just more than three minutes, the US vice president said that Washington had been \u201cquite flexible\u201d and \u201cquite accommodating\u201d in the negotiations. \u201cBut again, we just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms,\u201d he said. \u201cWe leave here with a very simple proposal: a method of understanding that is our final and best offer\u2026We\u2019ll see if the Iranians accept it.\u201dVance added that the US needed \u201can affirmative commitment\u201d from Iran that it would not \u201cseek a nuclear weapon\u201d and the \u201ctools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon\u201d. \u201cTheir nuclear program, such as it is \u2013 the enrichment facilities that they had before \u2013 they\u2019ve been destroyed.\u201d However, he said that Washington had not yet seen a \u201cfundamental 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\u201d. \u201cWe hope that we will,\u201d Vance added. The US delegation has departed from Pakistan.Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said that the country\u2019s delegation \u201cnegotiated continuously and intensively for 21 hours in order to protect the national interests of the Iranian people\u201d. It added that \u201cvarious issues, including the Strait of Hormuz, nuclear rights\u2026have been among the points of contention<\/a>\u201d. The state broadcaster added that \u201cdespite various initiatives from the Iranian delegation, the unreasonable demands of the American side prevented the progress of the negotiations\u2026Thus the negotiations ended\u201d. Earlier in the day, Iranian foreign ministry\u2019s spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei had said that the success of the peace talks depended on the US avoiding \u201cexcessive demands\u201d<\/a> and \u201cunlawful requests\u201d.\u201cThe success of this diplomatic process depends on the seriousness and good faith of the opposing side\u2026and the acceptance of Iran\u2019s legitimate rights and interests,\u201d Baqaei had said in a social media post.\u00a0He had added:\u00a0\u201cIn the past 24 hours, discussions were held on various dimensions of the main negotiation topics, including the Strait of Hormuz, the nuclear issue, war reparations, lifting of sanctions, and the complete end to the war against Iran and in the region.\u201dThe war<\/p>\n

The US and Israel launched an attack on Iran on February 28, claiming that Tehran\u2019s action posed an existential threat to Israel. Washington acts as a guarantor of Israel\u2019s security. Iran retaliated by striking Israel and US military bases in the region and targeting major cities in Gulf countries.<\/p>\n

Tehran also effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterbody connecting the Gulf to the Arabian Sea, for most international commercial vessels, triggering a global energy crisis. About 20% of global petroleum supply passes through the maritime chokepoint.<\/p>\n

Israel has been claiming that Iran is close to obtaining a nuclear weapon<\/a>, which could alter the regional security balance. Tehran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said that 21 hours of peace talks between the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3065,22172,34,217,23966,23967,58,23346,196,16344,23968,69,1142],"class_list":{"0":"post-63356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-ceasefire-news","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-israel","12":"tag-iran-jd-vance","13":"tag-iran-jd-vance-press-conference","14":"tag-iran-news","15":"tag-iran-peace-talks","16":"tag-iran-war","17":"tag-iran-us-peace-talks","18":"tag-pakistan-peace-talks-iran","19":"tag-tehran","20":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116390689665042642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63356","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=63356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}