Vance leaves Pakistan after Iran talks fail to reach a deal
U.S. Vice President JD Vance was seen arriving at Pakistan’s Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi on Sunday (April 12) morning, waving with a thumbs-up to a crowd before entering the plane.
He said earlier on Sunday that his negotiating team was leaving Pakistan after not reaching a deal with Iran following 21 hours of negotiations, jeopardising a fragile two-week ceasefire.
Senior U.S. and Iranian leaders gathered in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday (April 11) for negotiations to end the war, although Tehran threw the talks into doubt by saying they could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions.
These will be the highest-level U.S.-Iran talks since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the first official face-to-face negotiations between the two sides since 2015, when they reached a deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
