The US vice-president said the Iranians had been given Washington’s ‘last and best offer … we’ll see if they accept’
1-MIN READ1-MIN1 ListenKhushboo Razdanin WashingtonandAmber Wangin BeijingPublished: 9:37am, 12 Apr 2026Updated: 9:54am, 12 Apr 2026After lengthy high-stakes negotiations with the Iranian delegation, US Vice-President J.D. Vance is holding a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, saying the two sides failed to reach an agreement.
“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”, he said. “[The] bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that’s bad news for Iran, much more than that, it’s bad news for the United States of America”.
He left, not responding to questions on whether the two sides would go to war again.
Vance told reporters that the US had not yet seen a “fundamental commitment of will” from the Iranians not to develop nuclear weapons.
“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”, he said.
“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.”
