US Vice President JD Vance claimed that the United States and Iran had made a lot of progress during the talks. However, he stressed that the course of the peace talks will fundamentally change if Tehran refuses to open the Strait of Hormuz.
“I wouldn’t just say that things went wrong. I also think things went right. We made a lot of progress,” Vance told Fox News.
However, when asked about the prospects for further talks with Tehran, the US Vice President said that the ball is in the court of Iran.
“I think fundamentally, it’s a question that would be best put to the Iranians, because the ball really is in their court,” Vance told Fox News.
He cautioned that the course of the peace talks between the United States and Iran will fundamentally change if Tehran refuses to open the Strait of Hormuz.
“We haven’t seen that full reopening, so our expectation is that the Iranians are going to continue to make progress to opening the Straits of Hormuz, and if they don’t, it’s going to fundamentally change the negotiation that we have with them,” he said.
Vance, who led the US negotiating team during Islamabad Talks with Iran, asserted that the United States is seeking the complete withdrawal of enriched uranium from Iran so that Washington has full control over it.
“We absolutely need to see the nuclear material come out of the country of Iran. We would like to get that material out of the country completely, so that the United States has control of it. That’s number one,” Vance told Fox News.
Iran and the United States began talks in Islamabad on April 11 after President Donald Trump announced he had reached an agreement with Tehran on a two-week ceasefire. On April 12 morning, the head of the US delegation, Vance, announced that Iran and the United States had failed to reach an agreement during the negotiations and that the US delegation would return home without a deal.
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched strikes on targets in Iran, including in Tehran, causing damage and civilian casualties. Iran responded by striking Israeli territory and US military facilities in the Middle East.
