STORY: U.S. Vice President JD Vance was seen arriving at Pakistan’s Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi on Sunday (April 12) morning, waving with a thumbs-up to a crowd before entering the plane.

He said earlier on Sunday that his negotiating team was leaving Pakistan after not reaching a deal with Iran following 21 hours of negotiations, jeopardising a fragile two-week ceasefire.

Senior U.S. and Iranian leaders gathered in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday (April 11) for negotiations to end the war, although Tehran threw the talks into doubt by saying they could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions.

These will be the highest-level U.S.-Iran talks since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the first official face-to-face negotiations between the two sides since 2015, when they reached a deal on Iran's nuclear program.(Production: Mark Ho)

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STORY: U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday (April 12) that his negotiating team was leaving Pakistan after not reaching a deal with Iran after 21 hours of negotiations.

Vance cited shortcomings in the talks and said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including to not build nuclear weapons.

"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," Vance said. "So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are."

The talks in Islamabad were the first direct U.S.-Iranian meeting in more than a decade and the highest-level discussions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN (APRIL 12, 2026) (U.S. NETWORK POOL - No use USA)

1. VARIOUS OF U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, JD VANCE, SPEAKING WITH OFFICIALS BEFORE BOARDING AIRCRAFT

2. VANCE WALKING TOWARDS AIRCRAFT / WALKING UP STEPS AND WAVING BEFORE ENTERING AIRCRAFT

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SHOWS: ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (APRIL 12, 2026) (WHITE HOUSE - Access all)

1. U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, JD VANCE, WALKING TOWARDS PODIUM

2. WHITE FLASH

3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, JD VANCE, SAYING:

“We have been at it now for 21 hours, and we've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians, that's the good news. 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. 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 they have chosen not to accept our terms.”

4. WHITE FLASH

5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, JD VANCE, SAYING:

“Well, I won't go into all the details, because I don't want to negotiate it in public, after we negotiated for 21 hours in private, but the simple fact is that 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. That is the core goal of the President of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations. Again, their nuclear program, such as it is, the enrichment facilities that they've that they had before – they've been destroyed. But the simple question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now, but for the long term? We haven't seen that yet. We hope that we will.”

6. WHITE FLASH

7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, JD VANCE, SAYING:

“We just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think that we were quite flexible. We were quite accommodating. The President told us, You need to come here in good faith and make your best effort to get a deal. We did that, and unfortunately, we weren't able to make a headway.”

8. WHITE FLASH

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. VICE PRESIDENT, JD VANCE, SAYING:

“Yeah, obviously we were talking to the president consistently. I don't know how many times we’ve talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously also talked to Admiral (Brad) Cooper, to Pete (Hegseth), to Marco (Rubio), to the entire national security team. We talked to Scott Bessent a number of times. So look, we were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith. And we leave here, and we leave here with a very simple proposal, a method of understanding, that is our final and best offer. We'll see if the Iranians accept it.” /

VANCE WALKING AWAY FROM PODIUM