Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf
In a series of posts on X, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said the Iranian delegation had presented “forward-looking initiatives” during the 21-hour negotiations. However, he said the American side ultimately failed to gain Iran’s trust. “Now is the time for the US to decide whether it can gain our trust or not,” he said. US vice president JD Vance also said no agreement had been reached despite what he described as a “final and best offer”. Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign ministry said there had never been any expectation that an agreement could be reached in a single round of talks, soon after negotiations stalled in Islamabad.
It was the first direct meeting between the US and Iran since 2015, when the Obama administration signed a nuclear deal with Tehran that was later scrapped by Trump. It was also the highest-level engagement between the two countries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But Iranian state media reported that the main disagreements were over Iran’s nuclear programme and transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
No one had such an expectation,” ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said, according to state broadcaster IRIB. Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said the talks ended because of what it called “unreasonable demands” from the US side. “Naturally, from the beginning, we should not have expected to reach an agreement in a single session. Neither Iran, nor US gave further details.