Direct negotiations between the United States and Iran concluded without agreement after 21 hours of uninterrupted talks in Islamabad, in what is already considered to be one of the longest and most important diplomatic meetings between the two sides in decades.
The failure of the negotiations leaves in a situation of uncertainty the fragile ceasefire in force since the beginning of the week, in the midst of a war that has shaken the Middle East for more than six weeks.
The US Vice President, JD Vance, who led the Washington delegation, was clear in pointing out that the lack of agreement mainly hurts Tehran.
“We haven't reached an agreement, and that's much more bad news for Iran than for the United States,” he said before leaving the Pakistani capital. Vance stressed that his country negotiated “in good faith” and that he presented a final proposal that requires an unequivocal commitment on the part of Iran not to develop nuclear weapons or the capabilities necessary to produce them quickly
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The American position, strongly supported by Israel, focuses on preventing the Iranian regime from moving towards obtaining nuclear weapons, considered an existential threat to the Jewish State and a factor of
global destabilization.In this regard, the joint strategy of Washington and Jerusalem has combined military pressure with a diplomatic opening conditioned on concrete results.
