Iranian state media said "excessive demands" sank the possibility of an agreement, while Vice President JD Vance said he made a "final and best offer."
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., responded to Trump’s post about the U.S. blockading the Strait of Hormuz, saying in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that Trump is “doing the right thing.”
He said he believed Trump was trying to make a “strategic decision” to allow the U.S. to “establish that control” over the waterway. He pointed to Trump saying that the Navy would work to decommission any mines in the Strait “so that you could have an orderly return to the Strait of Hormuz being open.”
“The president, I believe, is doing the right thing, trying to control the straits, possibly in order to open that up for international water, so you can have trade move freely, not just in that region, but for the rest of the world,” he said later.
Trump has threatened a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, accusing Iran of trying to extort vessels for passage, after the failure of peace talks yesterday.
The leader, who previously attacked Iran for blocking the critical oil and shipping chokepoint, said in a Truth Social post: “Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”
He said that he had “instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran,” adding: “No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”
Trump also threatened to resume the conflict after peace talks failed yesterday, adding: “At an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran.”
Iran’s refusal to give up its nuclear ambitions resulted in a failure of negotiations, Trump said in a second post.
He said that talks between Iran and the U.S. in Pakistan lasted throughout the night and that points had been agreed to, but he said “there is only one thing matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!”
In the second post, he accused Iran of seeking to block the Strait of Hormuz, despite threatening to blockade it himself.
“As they promised, they better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Every Law in the book is being violated by them.”
Iranian officials have reacted to the failed U.S.-Iran talks in Pakistan with confidence that Iran has the upper hand in the conflict and will continue to restrict passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
In the 40 days of war, the U.S. has “learned that the victorious side is determined by the will of nations and superiority on the battlefield, not by rhetoric on social media,” said Deputy Parliament Speaker Ali Nikzad, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
“In the coming days, they will also learn that diplomacy is an arena of respect, interaction and acceptance of realities, not dictating wishes,” he said.
An Iranian lawmaker who was part of the negotiating team in Pakistan, Mahmoud Nabavian, said leaders around the world should know that “the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened.”
“The world will experience a new form of management in the Strait of Hormuz,” he said.
A second flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza was due to set sail on Sunday from the Spanish port of Barcelona to try to break the Israeli blockade.
About 30 boats planned to leave the Mediterranean port city laden with medical aid and other supplies on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and more vessels are expected to join along the route towards Palestine.
The Israeli military halted the roughly 40 boats assembled by the same organisation last October as they attempted to reach blockaded Gaza, arresting Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and more than 450 other participants.
Israel, which controls all access to the Gaza Strip, denies withholding supplies for its more than 2 million residents. Yet Palestinians and international aid bodies say supplies reaching the territory are still insufficient, despite a ceasefire reached in October which included guarantees of increased aid.
Liam Cunningham, an actor who starred in the Game of Thrones television series who is supporting the flotilla but not taking part, told Reuters: “Every kilogram of aid that is on these ships is a failure because all these people on these ships giving up their time to help their fellow human beings are doing what their governments are legally obliged to do.”
The World Health Organization has said that even during armed conflicts, states are obligated under international humanitarian law to ensure that people are able to reach medical care in safety.
“This is a mission that aims to open a humanitarian corridor so the aid delivery organisations can arrive,” Saif Abukeshak, a Palestinian activist and member of the flotilla’s organising committee, told Reuters.
Swiss and Spanish activists on last year’s flotilla said they were subjected to inhumane conditions during their detention by Israeli forces — an allegation that was rejected by an Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson.
The U.S. failed to gain Iran’s trust during negotiations in Islamabad, Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led the delegation in Pakistan, said today.
“Before the negotiations, I emphasized that we have goodwill and the necessary will, but due to the experiences of the previous two wars, we have no trust in the other side,” he said in a post on X.
He said his colleagues presented “forward-moving initiatives,” but the U.S. “was not able, in this round of negotiations to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation.”
Referring to the war, he added that Iran will not cease for a moment our efforts to consolidate the achievements of forty days of the Iranian nation’s national defense.”
Differences over the Iran war have “undoubtedly strained things with the Trump administration,” and Britain made the “right decision” in not joining the conflict, one of Keir Starmer’s top officials has said.
In an interview this morning with Sky News, NBC News’ international broadcasting partner, U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he was disappointed by the failure of peace talks and criticized Trump personally.
He said the U.S. President has said “incendiary, provocative, outrageous things” on social media and he is “not sure it’s ever clear” what the President means in some of his posts. Trump has repeatedly criticized Britain and other European countries for staying out of the war.
“I think we’ve all come to learn that you judge President Trump through what he does, not just what he says,” Streeting said. “And ultimately, the only way in which we’re going to clear this situation up is to reach agreement with Iran, one that puts nuclear weapons beyond its ambitions and reach.”
Netanyahu has said he wants “a real peace agreement that will last for generations” with Lebanon.
The prime minister said his country is continuing to fight Hezbollah, and peace talks with Lebanon are dependent on the disarmament of the group.
Talks between the two nations are due to begin Tuesday. The U.S. will mediate.
The spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry said there was no expectation in Tehran of a deal, particularly amid the war.
“These talks were held after 40 days of imposed war, in an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion,” Esmaeil Baghaei said in remarks to Iranian news outlet SNN. “Naturally, we should not have expected an agreement in just one meeting and no one had such expectations.”
Baghaei said common ground was found on a number of issues but that “on two, three key topics there were significant differences and, ultimately, the talks did not lead to an agreement.”
Talks with the United States, which Baghaei described as the longest single negotiating session with the U.S. in the past year, included new topics like the Strait of Hormuz and regional issues.
“Under all circumstances, the diplomatic apparatus must pursue the rights and interests of the Iranian people,” he said.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar urged the U.S. and Iran to continue their ceasefire despite peace talks in Islamabad concluding with no agreement to end the war.
In a post on X, Dar characterized the lengthy negotiation session as both intense and constructive, saying the nations should maintain the talks’ “positive spirit,” move forward with the goal of region-wide “peace and prosperity” and vow to continue to withhold attacks against each other.
“It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,” he said.
As that takes place, he said, Pakistan will stand by.
“Pakistan has been and will continue to play its role to facilitate engagement and dialogue between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America in the days to come,” Dar said.
Iran state media said “excessive demands” sank the possibility of a U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war at this weekend’s peace talks.
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said on Telegram that the sides could not find common ground on a number of key matters, including the Strait of Hormuz and the country’s development of nuclear technology, it said.
“After 21 hours of talks and diplomatic efforts, the excessive demands by America prevented any agreement,” it said.
After announcing that no agreement had been made, Vice President JD Vance boarded Air Force 2 in Islamabad ahead of his departure from host country Pakistan.
Vance said that the U.S. delegation left negotiations with the Iranian delegation with an “understanding that is our final and best offer.”
“We were negotiating in good faith,” Vance said. “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.”
The vice president said that he and the U.S. delegation were in “constant communication” with Trump throughout the 21 hours of peace talks. Vance told reporters that the president urged him to have “good faith” and “make your best effort to get a deal.”
“We did that, and unfortunately, we weren’t able to make any headway,” Vance said.
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