JD Vance revealed that Iran has not accepted a deal after a grueling, 21-hour marathon of historic peace talks.
'We've been at it now for 21 hours.
We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians.
That's the good news,' Vance told reporters at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.
'The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.
'So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement.' Negotiations appeared to end while Donald Trump attended a UFC match in Miami with his family and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Vance said he did not want to 'negotiate in public,' but explained that Iran would not commit to stopping its pursuit of 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 may have chosen not to accept our terms,' he said.
'We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon.' Vance added: 'That is the core goal of the president of the United States.
And that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations.' The Vice President did not elaborate on what the next steps for the negotiations....
