Islamabad : Islamabad talks between the US and Iran have ended here after 21 hour – long marathon negotiations without any formal agreement.
Both the Iranian and US delegations left Islamabad on Sunday morning after these rare direct talks in decades between the two countries ended without positive outcome.
US vice president ,J D Vance , had a brief interaction with media persons in Islamabad before departing for the US from Noor Khan air base in Rawalpindi.
JD Vance in his short media talks said ” We held talks in Islamabad with good intention , but could not reach to an agreement “. He claimed that Iranian side refused to accept our demand for its nuclear programme.
The US vice president termed failing in reaching to the agreement as a bad news for US , but worse for Iran. He said ‘We offered the best proposal to the Iranian side , but it did not accept the US what he termed as the best concessional offer to end the war and move forward”. He added that the US sought a firm commitment from Iran during the talks for not having nuke as this is what President Trump wanted from Tehran and gave the best offer for it, but Iranian side did not agree to our terms.
Iran ‘s Foreign ministry spokesman, however, claimed headway in Islamabad talks with the US. According to the international media , Iran is not going to have further talks with US for ending the ME war.
Failing in reaching to a formal agreement is likely to add to already mounting uncertainty on the ME future. It can keep haunting the Strate of Hormuz. In the given situation , the fear of more economic cost of war ME f would keep on haunting the world economies.
Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister , Ishaq Dar , has appealed to the US and Iran to hold ceasefire and keep the channel for more talks open to establish lasting peace in the ME.
Iran and US had 21 hours long talks in Islamabad that started on Saturday after noon and ended in early hours of Sunday.
Pakistan hosted these talks and made its best efforts to facilitate both the parties to reach to an understanding for a formal peace agreement.
Pakistan’s leadership held separate meetings with the negotiators of both countries ahead of their formal direct talks .
Both the parties had top level talks in the first session and later technical level talks were held between the official teams of the both countries.
Soon after ending of the Islamabad talks , Iranian media reported no change in n status of the Strate of Hormuz.
The US president , Donald Trump , had claimed a day before that US had launched a formal campaign to reopen the Strate of Hormuz.