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Direct U.S.-Iran talks fail to reach resolution after lengthy negotiation [View all]
Source: Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Talks between the United States and Iran failed to reach a resolution over ending the war, Vice President JD Vance announced after more than 20 hours of negotiations here.
“We just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think that we were quite flexible,” Vance said around 6:30 a.m. local time, after working well into the morning.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/11/us-iran-islamabad-hormuz-ceasefire/
I wonder if it would have helped if:
1. We had not started bombing the shit out of Iran a month ago?
2. Or maybe we could have sent a negotiating team who knew what they were doing instead of sending a phony hillbilly and two real estate developers?
3. Or maybe if Trump had not cancelled the Obama deal nine years ago?
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