Vance: No Agreement with Iran 

after Marathon Talks ^{April, 12, 2026 TNA}

ISLAMABAD (Tasnim) – US Vice President JD Vance said no agreement was reached with Iran after marathon talks in Pakistan, saying the US was not able to get to a situation where Iranians were willing to accept the US terms.

“We have been at it now for 21 hours, and we’ve had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That’s the good news,” Vance said at a press appearance in Islamabad.

“The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement,” he said. “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.”

The US vice president says the two sides discussed several issues.

“We just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think we were quite flexible; we were quite accommodating,” he said.

“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.”

When asked about what the Iranians had rejected, the US vice president said he would not get into the details, but the US is seeking confirmation that Iran will not seek a nuclear weapon.

“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,” he said.

Vance said that he spoke with President Donald Trump “consistently” during trilateral talks with Iran in Pakistan.

“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,” Vance said.

Vance said he also spoke with other top US officials throughout the negotiations, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, and Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command.

“We were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith,” Vance said.