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US Vice President JD Vance has just left Pakistan after long, high-stakes discussions with Iran failed to produce a peace deal that would end the war.
Standing next to US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner, Vance spoke to members of the media before his departure, the BBC reported.
Here are some of the key phrases from the press conference:
He says that after 21 hours of peace talks in Islamabad, the US and Iran have not reached an agreement to end the war.
"We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians, that's the good news. The bad news is that we haven't reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it is for the United States of America," Vance said.
"We simply couldn't get to a situation where the Iranians would accept our terms," he says.
The vice president also shared his appreciation for Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, and said that "whatever shortcomings" there were in the negotiations, "were not due to the Pakistanis, who did a wonderful job."
It was a short press conference with only a few questions asked by reporters.
When asked about Iran's nuclear capability, Vance responds that preventing the country from having nuclear weapons both now and in the future is US President Donald Trump's "primary goal."
He adds that Trump was involved in the talks and he spoke to the president somewhere between "half a dozen" and "dozens of times" during the negotiations.
"We leave here with a very simple proposal, a method to understand that this is our final and best offer. We will see if the Iranians accept it," he adds before concluding his comments.
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