“I think it’s bad news for Iran,” Vice President J.D. Vance estimated. “It was clear that we should not expect to reach an agreement in a single negotiation session,” tempers the Iranian regime.
The two enemies did not find common ground. After agreeing to a two-week ceasefire, the United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end the war in the Middle East after twenty-one hours of negotiations in Pakistan, announced Vice President American Sunday, April 12 at dawn. J.D. Vance returns to the United States after making, according to him, a “final and best possible offer” to Iran.
“I think it’s bad news for Iran much more than it is for the United States of America,” estimated, during a brief press conference in Islamabad, the one tasked by Donald Trump to lead these negotiations. Franceinfo looks back on these unprecedented discussions that stalled on “two or three key issues,” according to Tehran.
A historic meeting and lengthy discussions
These discussions, under the auspices of Pakistan in Islamabad, were an event in themselves: Americans and Iranians had never negotiated at such a high level since the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the Shah’s regime in 1979. “This shows the willingness of both parties to end this war,” estimated Vali Nasr in the New York Times, professor and Iran specialist at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
American side, J.D. Vance was accompanied by Steve Witkoff, special envoy of Donald Trump, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law of the American president. The Iranian delegation was led by its influential Parliament president, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. He was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, and a team of about 70 people.
Iranian state television reported two negotiation sessions on Saturday. Another was held in the evening, according to the information provided by the White House. According to the New York Times and the Washington Post, the discussions continued into the night before ending Sunday morning.
The United States deplore the absence of a “firm promise” on nuclear issues
This is one of the reasons given by Donald Trump to justify the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28: Tehran must abandon its nuclear weapons program. However, if “the meeting went well, most points were approved, but the only point that really mattered, the nuclear issue, was not agreed upon,” claimed the American leader on Sunday afternoon on his Truth Social platform. A little earlier, J.D. Vance had criticized the absence of a “firm promise” from the Islamic Republic on this matter during the discussions.
