率领美国代表团与伊朗进行高风险谈判的副总统万斯说，尽管在巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡进行了持续几个小时的马拉松式谈判，但双方没有达成协议。
万斯在会谈结束后的简短讲话中说:“坏消息是我们还没有达成协议。”。“我认为这对伊朗来说是个坏消息，比对美国来说更坏。所以我们回到美国时还没有达成协议。”
当被问及谈判恶化的原因时，万斯说，他不会透露全部细节，但美国需要伊朗做出不寻求核武器的坚定承诺。
万斯说:“简单的事实是，我们需要看到一个明确的承诺，即他们不会寻求核武器，也不会寻求能够使他们迅速获得核武器的工具。”。“这是美国总统的核心目标。”
尽管万斯在讲话中说，伊朗的铀浓缩设施已经被摧毁，但他说，美国没有看到伊朗人做出长期不发展核武器的“根本承诺”。
万斯对记者说:“我认为我们非常灵活，非常通融。”。“总统告诉我们，你需要带着诚意来到这里，尽最大努力达成协议。”
但是他说，伊朗不接受美国的条件。
万斯在讲话中没有谈到谈判的任何其他细节，也没有提到重新开放霍尔木兹海峡，这是美国本周早些时候宣布的停火协议的关键部分之一。
万斯说，除了万斯之外，特使史蒂夫·威特科夫和总统的女婿贾里德·库什纳也参加了持续21小时的会谈。谈判开始时，美国代表团只与巴基斯坦官员会面，然后与伊朗官员进行面对面的会谈。
万斯说，该团队在整个谈判过程中与唐纳德·特朗普总统和其他内阁成员进行了沟通。
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白宫说，美国谈判小组还包括许多来自国务院、国防部和国家安全委员会的官员。
万斯在星期五动身去参加会谈时说，他期待着“积极的”谈判。但他也对伊朗人发出了警告。
“如果他们想耍我们，那么他们会发现谈判团队不是那么容易接受，”他告诉记者。
特朗普总统周五下午被问及即将举行的会谈时表示，“我认为会很快结束。如果不行，我们就能以某种方式结束它。”
在谈判开始前，哪一方被认为在僵局中更有影响力是一个悬而未决的问题。
特朗普周二晚上宣布的停火非常脆弱，双方都指责对方没有满足谈判的先决条件。
在停战的第一天，以及随后的日子里，以色列加强了对黎巴嫩真主党(伊朗的代理人)的袭击，激怒了伊朗，并导致了对违反条款的指责。
Vancetold周四报道说，这是一个“合法的误解”,美国从未在停火协议中包括停止以色列对黎巴嫩的打击。伊朗议会议长穆罕默德·巴格哈里巴夫周五重申，在谈判开始之前，黎巴嫩必须停火。
约翰·霍普金斯大学讲师、巴基斯坦政治分析家赛义德·穆罕默德·阿里说，以色列在黎巴嫩的持续进攻“将对”谈判产生重大压力。
阿里说，在美国和伊朗来到谈判桌前，美国是否会向以色列施压，要求其缓和活动还不清楚。
特朗普总统周四表示，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡告诉他，以色列将开始“低调”发动进攻。
伊朗议会议长加利巴夫也在X上的一个帖子中说，“伊朗被冻结的资产”(被世界各地银行制裁冻结的资金)的释放也是在会谈前达成的，美国尚未这样做。
美国官员、调解人甚至伊朗人此前都没有表示这是一个先决条件。白宫尚未回应置评请求。特朗普总统长期以来一直批评前总统巴拉克·奥巴马，因为他在2015年伊朗核协议中返还了超过10亿美元的冷冻伊朗资金。
与此同时，川普指责伊朗不允许船只自由通过霍尔木兹海峡——这是他为停火设定的条件，也是他说在任何谈判之前必须满足的条件。
周五下午，总统在他的社交媒体平台上发布消息称，“伊朗人似乎没有意识到他们没有底牌，除了利用国际水道敲诈世界的短期交易。”。“他们今天活着的唯一原因就是谈判!”
但是伊朗人已经证明了
Vance says no agreement reached with Iran after marathon talks in Islamabad
Vice President JD Vance, leading a U.S. delegation for high-stakes talks with Iran, said the two sides did not reach a deal despite marathon talks that lasted several hours in Islamabad, Pakistan.
"The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement," Vance said in brief remarks following the conclusion of the talks. "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."
When asked where the negotiations deteriorated, Vance said he wouldn't get into the full details but that the U.S. needed a firm commitment from Iran that it would not seek a nuclear weapon.
"The simple fact is 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 said. "That is the core goal of the President of the United States."
Although Vance said during his remarks that Iran's enrichment facilities have been destroyed, he said the U.S. did not see the "fundamental commitment" from the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon in the long term.
"I think that we were quite flexible, we were quite accommodating," Vance told reporters. "The president told us you need to come here in good faith and make your best effort to get a deal."
But he said Iran did not accept U.S. terms.
In his remarks, Vance did not address any other specifics from the negotiations and did not mention the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the key parts of the ceasefire deal announced by the U.S. earlier this week.
In addition to Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, took part in the talks that Vance said lasted 21 hours. The negotiations began with the U.S. team meeting only with Pakistani officials before in-person talks with Iranian officials began.
Vance said the team communicated with President Donald Trump and other members of the Cabinet throughout the negotiation process.
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The U.S negotiating team also included a host of officials from the StateDepartment, Department of Defense and National Security Council, the White House said.
As he left for the talks on Friday, Vance said he expected "positive" negotiations. But he had a warning for the Iranians, too.
"Ifthey'regoing to try to play us, thenthey'regoing to find the negotiating team is not that receptive," he told reporters.
President Trump on Friday afternoon, when asked about the upcoming talks, said, "I think it's going to go pretty quickly. And if it doesn't, we'll be able to finish it off one way or the other."
Heading into the talks, which side was seen to have more leverage in the standoff was an open question.
The ceasefire announced by Trump on Tuesday nighthas beenfragile,and both sides have accused the other of not meeting preconditionsfor the talks.
On Day 1 of the truce, and in the days since,Israel has stepped up attacks against Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, in Lebanon,outraging Iran and leading to accusations the terms had been breached.
Vancetold reportersThursday it wasa"legitimatemisunderstanding" andthat the U.S.never includedstopping Israeli strikes onLebanon in the ceasefire deal.Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad BagherGhalibaf,reiterated on Friday that a ceasefire in Lebanon must occur before talks begin.
Israel's ongoing offensive in Lebanon "is going to create major stress on" talks, said Syed Mohammad Ali, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and analyst of Pakistani politics.
Whether the U.S. would put pressure Israel to temper its campaign is unclear before the U.S. and Iran come to the table, Ali said.
President Trump said Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him Israel would begin to "low-key" its offensive.
Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliament speaker,also said in a post on X on that "therelease of Iran's blocked assets" (funds frozen by sanctions in banks around the world) was also agreed uponbeforethetalks,and the U.S. has yet to do that.
U.S. officials, mediators and even the Iranians have not previously indicated this was a precondition. The White House has not responded to a request for comment. President Trump has long been critical of former President Barack Obama for returning more than a billion dollars in frozenIranian money as part of his 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Meanwhile, Trump has scolded Iran for not allowing the free flow of shipsthroughthe Strait of Hormuz -- a condition he set for the ceasefire and something he said must be met before any talks.
"The Iraniansdon'tseem to realize they have no cards, other than ashort termextortion of the World by using International Waterways,"the president posted on his social media platform on Friday afternoon. "The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!"
But the Iranians have proven so far they can weaponize the flow of commerce through the strait, and it has put real pressure on the Americans to negotiate.
Before Trump started the war, oilflowedfreely there. Now, Americans are paying, on average, more than $4 a gallon on gas, andinflationsurgedto the highest rate innearlytwo years in the month sincethe war began.
Even if the two sides can get past these hurdles andbegintalks, the issues on the table are enormous.
The U.S. wants guarantees Iran will permanently end enriching uranium that could be used for a nuclear weapon, and that Iran handsover or destroy its existing stockpile -- two demands Trump cited as reasons for going to war.
Trump also wants limits on Iran's missile production and for Tehran to end its support for what the U.S. calls terrorist proxy groups in the region.
The U.S. has not formally releaseditsset of demands, but President Trump said on Wednesday that his team had presented Iran with a15-pointplan, saying many demands "have already been agreed to."
Meanwhile, the Iraniansare demanding an end to economic sanctions, controlover the flow of commerce through the strait in perpetuity, a permanent end tothe U.S. and Israeli bombings and for American forces to leave the region.
Vance, who has long opposed U.S. military intervention in the Middle East and other countries, made his reservations about entering a conflict with Tehran known internally before Trump ordered the first set of U.S. strikes on Feb. 28,ABC News has previously reported.
Trump, who has acknowledged he and Vance were "philosophically different" on the matter, said in an interview on Friday with the New York Post that Vance, who has limited diplomatic experience, is doing a "very good job" and that he has "nothing to prove."
And in yet another threat to Tehran, Trump told the Post that U.S. military vessels are being prepared and reloaded with ammunition in case the peace talks in Islamabad fail.
"And if we don't have a deal, we will be using them, and we will be using them very effectively," Trump reportedly said.
