{"id":11256,"date":"2026-04-12T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11256"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:03:43","slug":"130208182-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=11256","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Constantly in communication\u2019: Vance says Trump called \u2018a dozen times\u2019 during peace talks with Iran &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130208208,imgsize-1070290,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130208208.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Constantly in communication\u2019: Vance says Trump called \u2018a dozen times\u2019 during peace talks with Iran\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>United States Vice President JD Vance on Saturday said that President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Donald Trump<\/a> called \u201ca dozen times\u201d as he and his team were engaged in peace talks with Iran in Pakistan\u2019s Islamabad.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>While speaking to reporters, Vance said, \u201cWe were talking to the President consistently. <!-- -->I don\u2019t know how many times we talked to him \u2014 a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours.<!-- -->\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>\u201cWe were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith. And we leave here with a very simple proposal, a method of understanding that is our final and best offer,\u201d Vance added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Talks between the US and Iran hit a dead end for now after no agreement was reached. According to Vance, the core dispute remained Iran\u2019s nuclear programme.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Describing it as a \u201cred line\u201d for the Trump administration, the Vice President said Iran was told to end its program and halt uranium enrichment.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>\u201cThe simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon and that they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon,\u201d Vance said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>He added that it is the \u201ccore goal of the President (Donald Trump),\u201d and that is what they attempted to achieve through negotiations.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>\u201cBut the simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and that they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon,\u201d Vance told reporters.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Meanwhile, Iran said that the demands made by the US are \u201cunreasonable\u201d and blamed the US for the collapse of talks.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>\u201cBefore the negotiations, I emphasised that we have the necessary good faith and will, but due to the experiences of the two previous wars, we have no trust in the opposing side,\u201d Iran\u2019s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>He added that the Iranian delegation put forth constructive initiatives, \u201cbut the other side was unable to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of negotiations.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>\u201cAmerica has understood our logic and principles, and now it\u2019s time for it to decide whether it can earn our trust or not,\u201d he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons but has insisted on its right to a civilian nuclear programme. <!-- -->Experts say its stockpile of enriched uranium, though not weapons-grade, is only a short technical step away.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/>Since the US and Israel launched the war on Feb. 28, it has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran, 2,020 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel, and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states, and caused lasting damage to infrastructure in half a dozen Middle Eastern countries. Iran\u2019s grip on the Strait of Hormuz has largely cut off the Persian Gulf and its oil and gas exports from the global economy, sending energy prices soaring.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/>Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said his country will try to facilitate a new dialogue between Iran and the US in the coming days.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"41\"\/>\u201cIt is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire,\u201d Dar said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"43\"\/>The deadlock \u2014 and Vance\u2019s take-it-or-leave-it proposal that Iran end its nuclear program \u2014 mirrored February\u2019s nuclear talks in Switzerland. Though President Donald Trump has said the subsequent war was meant to compel Iran\u2019s leaders to abandon nuclear ambitions, each side\u2019s positions appeared unchanged in negotiations following six weeks of fighting.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"45\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/constantly-in-communication-vance-says-trump-called-a-dozen-times-during-peace-talks-with-iran\/articleshow\/130208182.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Vice President JD Vance on Saturday said that President Donald Trump called \u201ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,733,9653,9625,27525,12468,27526,27524,3845],"class_list":["post-11256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-nuclear-talks","tag-jd-vance","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-nuclear-program","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-pakistan-diplomacy","tag-peace-negotiations-iran","tag-us-iran-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}