The USA’s Vice President J.D. Vance and the rest of the American delegation have now left the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, without a peace agreement after 21 hours of intense negotiations with Iran, as they were unable to agree on a permanent end to the war.

The Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Vice President is due to speak soon.

To the Prime Minister of Pakistan and to Field Marshal Manir, who were both incredible hosts, and whatever shortcomings in the negotiation, it wasn’t because of the Pakistanis who did an amazing job and really tried to help us and the Iranians bridge the gap and get to a deal.

We’ve been at it now for 21 hours, and we’ve had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America. So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement.

We’ve made very clear what our red lines are, what things we’re willing to accommodate them on and what things we’re not willing to accommodate them on.

And we’ve made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen not to accept our terms. Questions? Sir, Nick Robertson for CNN. Precisely what have they rejected here? Can you help us understand it a little bit? Well, I won’t go into all the details because I don’t want to negotiate in public after we’ve negotiated for 21 hours in private, but 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. That is the core goal of the President of the United States, and that’s what we’ve tried to achieve through these negotiations.

Again, their nuclear program, such as it is, the enrichment facilities that they’ve had before, they’ve been destroyed. But 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’t seen that yet. We hope that we will. Jen. We talked about all those issues, Jen, and we talked about a number of issues beyond that.

And so certainly those things came up, but again, we just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think that we were quite flexible. We were quite accommodating. The president told us, you need to come here in good faith and make your best effort to get a deal. We did that. And unfortunately, we weren’t able to make any headway. Preston. Mr. President, how often did you communicate with President Trump throughout the negotiations? There are reports that there were multiple rounds where there were breaks in between negotiations. How often did you communicate with the president throughout those rounds, and what was he saying as you were going through these negotiations that you said fell short? Yeah, obviously, we were talking to the president consistently. I don’t know how many times we talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously also talked to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marco, to the entire national security team. We talked to Scott Bussen a number of times. So look, we were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith. And we leave here, and we leave here with a very simple proposal, a method of understanding that is our final and best offer. We’ll see if the Iranians accept it. Thank you. Okay, that was the U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance, talking after a marathon 21 hours, he said, of discussions with the Pakistan.

“We have not reached an agreement. They have chosen not to accept our demands, and I believe that is worse news for Iran than it is for the United States,” J.D. Vance said at a brief press conference during the night Danish time. One of the key demands from the American side was that Iran would refrain from enriching uranium and developing nuclear weapons.

“The question is whether we have seen a willingness from the Iranians not to develop nuclear weapons, either now or in the future, and we have not,” Vance said.

A spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Iranian TV station IRIB that the Iranian delegation had no expectations of reaching any future agreement with the United States in the first round of negotiations.

The two countries entered a 14-day ceasefire on Wednesday. However, nothing concrete came out of it. One of the central issues was the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

That strait is still not open and remains under Iranian control, and with each passing day that it stays closed, the global economy will be affected. We will all feel it in our wallets, including American voters. Therefore, I assess that pressure on President Donald Trump will increase as prices rise, including for his voters in the United States.

JD Vance, who is the Vice President of the United States, is in Pakistan for negotiations with Iran.

This world politics has always been like a game of chess. In it, each move is made with thought, and the next moves are planned and broken by keeping an eye on them. In this way, the player in front is also making his own moves.

 So, politics is always a game like this. I thought a lot about why JD Vance was sent for negotiations. Look, you will hear carefully. This is not just the selection of one person, but there are many messages behind it. The first thing is that JD Vance is one of those people who was not in favor of this war and he has always opposed this war.

He had also told the Prime Minister of Israel on one occasion that the whole world is in danger because of your expansionist ambitions. You must know about JD Vance, who first became famous because of a book.

Hilli. Billy Alley was the name of his book, and in this book he defended the rights of the downtrodden, the marginalized. From there, he became popular, then he was elected to the Senate, and he is also a businessman, of course. And then came Vice President J.D. Vance, who sends a very strong message that America now recognizes the diverse views that have arisen within America. There are many internal conflicts within America. Many groups have formed within the situation within America. J.D. Vance’s message is that instead of a traditional American foreign policy, we are sending a person who has different and diverse views. In his presence, the chances of negotiations being successful are high, in which America’s own honor is also saved, and Iran, which is, can also make itself known. And the second thing is that J.D. Vance is not only the Vice President of America, in the November elections. He is also a candidate for the President of the United States. If the Republicans win again, the Republican representative is very likely to be JD Vance. So, with his public background, his profile, and his diverse views on international affairs, coming to this area sends a message that the post-sharing is that America wants it to be a peaceful war, and on that basis, even the inner-leftist poet in America can get support. This is my comment from a general practitioner, from a person who keeps reading and watching all these things.

Who is Natalie A. Baker

She’s not a household name. She never wanted to be. But right now, in a city that wasn’t supposed to matter this much, Natalie A. Baker may be the most important American you’ve never heard of. Think about what’s happening here. The United States and Iran, two countries that have spent decades trying to destroy each other, are sitting down to talk in Islamabad, on neutral ground. And the woman who made that possible, a career diplomat who’s been quietly pulling strings from the U.S. embassy, one phone call, one security briefing, one handshake at a time. Two days ago, she was in a room with Pakistan’s interior minister making sure nothing goes wrong. Today, she’s on the tarmac watching Air Force Two touchdown, receiving the vice president of the United States, a special envoy, and a presidential advisor.

That’s her work landing on Pakistani soil.

Here’s what you need to know about Natalie Baker. This woman has been in the room when things fall apart. She was in Libya in 2011, not on a video call, not monitoring from a safe distance. She was there, on the ground, as a revolution erupted around her. She stayed until the embassy had no choice but to evacuate. After Libya came Doha. After Doha came the Iran regional presence office in Dubai, where her entire job was watching, reading, and understanding the country that America is now trying to negotiate with. Her credentials speak before she does. A degree from Princeton, another from Harvard, and a graduation from National War College. Baker has spent a lifetime preparing for a moment exactly like this one. J.D. Vance gets the cameras. Steve Wickoff gets the headlines. Jared Kushner gets the speculation. But none of them could walk into Islamabad cold. Someone had to prepare the ground. Someone had to earn Pakistan’s trust, secure the corridors, and ensure that when the most powerful delegation in the world touched down, everything worked. That someone was Natalie A. Baker. 40 days of conflict, two nuclear-armed powers circling each other, and at the center of the diplomatic machinery trying to stop it, a woman most people couldn’t pick out of a lineup. That’s how diplomacy actually works, and right now it’s working in Islamabad.