By Evaristo Lara
After 21 hours of negotiations in Pakistan, to reach an agreement between the United States and Iran aimed at ending the war, Vice President James David Vance announced that the Islamic Republic did not accept the conditions proposed.
“The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that is bad news for Iran, much more than for the United States.. We were quite accommodating. The president told us: ‘You must come in good faith and do everything possible to reach an agreement.’ We did that, but unfortunately we could not move forward,” he said at a press conference.
The Ohio Republican refused to go into details about what were the points that truncated the possibility of making the ceasefire granted by President Donald Trump definitive.
“We return to the United States, without having reached an agreement. We have made it very clear what our red lines are, in which aspects we are willing to give in and in which we are not. And we have made it as clear as possible, but they have chosen not to accept our conditions.
“I am not going to go into all the details because I do not want to negotiate in public after having negotiated for 21 hours in private,” he emphasized.
Likewise, Vance stated that most of the time he was in contact with President Trump, with Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense; with Marco Rubio, Secretary of State; and with other members of the administration, since it was necessary to exchange points of view on certain issues addressed by Iranian diplomacy.
Minutes later, the second most powerful man in the White House headed to the airport to board Air Force Two bound for the United States.
Although President Donald Trump warned that, if he did not seal an agreement with Iranian diplomacy, he would resume the war in a more destructive phase compared to that shown during more than a month of bombings, his statements issued this Saturday are disconcerting in projecting a certain degree of indifference, since in his view the winner of the war has always been the United States.
“We will win no matter what happens. Maybe they will reach an agreement, maybe not,” said the president.
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