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US-Iran peace talks finish after 21 hours and not using a deal as JD Vance says Tehran did not settle for ‘our ultimate supply’: Live updates

Peace talks between the US and Iran have ended after 21 hours without a deal.

Vice President JD Vance left Islamabad after discussions ended, saying he has put forward a ‘final and best offer’. 

But Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the two sides have agreed on a number of points, and it is natural that no agreement was reached in a day. 

Key Saudi pipeline restored

Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry said that its key east-west oil pipeline and other facilities had been restored following attacks by Iran on infrastructure across the Gulf.

Citing an energy ministry statement, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that the attacks had led to a ‘loss of approximately 700,000 barrels per day of pumping capacity through the east-west pipeline’ and work was underway to restore full production capacity at the kingdom’s Khurais oil field.

Israel and Lebanon to hold direct negotiations

The Lebanese president’s office has confirmed that discussions between Israel and Lebanon are expected to begin in Washington on Tuesday.

The announcement came after Israel’s surprise announcement that talks had been authorised, despite both nations lacking official relations.

Israel wants Lebanon’s government to assume responsibility for disarming Hezbollah, which joined the war in its opening days in support of Iran.

Israel claims dismantling of West Bank explosives lab

The Israeli military says it has ‘dismantled’ an explosives manufacturing lab in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

In a social media post, it says the material included 200 pipe bombs, fire extinguishers, and gas cylinders with potential explosive use, and more than 50 kilograms of improvised explosive material.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that the Israeli operation destroyed a residential building.

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On the latest episode of the Daily Mail’s War on Tape, foreign correspondent Chris Pleasance breaks down the military options available to America for seizing the Strait of Hormuz by force and why each would come at a devastating price.

Since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign of Iran, the regime retaliated by blocking the Strait, a vital waterway that accounts for about 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas flows.

Using rudimentary defences: a mix of deep-sea mines, primitive drones, and speedboats, Iran has been able to bring the world economy to its knees. At its peak, Brent crude was selling for $126 a barrel, a faster price rise than during any other conflict in recent history.

Iranian foreign ministry says talks took place in ‘atmosphere of mistrust’

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei earlier said that the US should refrain from making ‘excessive demands’.

He later added that the peace talks took place in ‘an atmosphere filled with mistrust, suspicion and doubt’, following more than 40 days of ‘imposed war’ and not long after a ceasefire came into force.

Baghaei tells the Iranian state’s Student News Network: ‘We should not have expected from the start that we could reach an agreement in a single session.

‘I don’t think anyone had such expectations.’

He added that ‘diplomacy never ends’.

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PICTURED: JD Vance leaves Pakistan after US-Iran peace talks end

Around an hour-and-a-half ago, US Vice President JD Vance departed Pakistan on Air Force Two, heading back home after no deal was reached with Iran to end the war.

The Iranian delegation has also left Islamabad, state media reported.

US Vice President JD Vance (C) shakes hands with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar (3rd R), as Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi (L), Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir (centre R) and Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad Natalie A. Baker (2nd R) look on, as he prepares to board Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran in Islamabad on April 12, 2026. Iran and the United States failed to reach an agreement to end the war in the Middle East, US Vice President JD Vance said April 12 after marathon talks in Islamabad, adding that he was leaving negotiations after giving Tehran the "final and best offer". (Photo by Jacquelyn MARTIN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - APRIL 12: Vice President JD Vance walks with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, partially seen on the left, Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir, third left, Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, and Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad Natalie A. Baker, right, before boarding Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran on April 12, 2026 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin - Pool/Getty Images)
US Vice President JD Vance (L) talks to Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshall Asim Munir (R) and Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar (C) before boarding Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran in Islamabad on April 12, 2026. Iran and the United States failed to reach an agreement to end the war in the Middle East, US Vice President JD Vance said April 12 after marathon talks in Islamabad, adding that he was leaving negotiations after giving Tehran the "final and best offer". (Photo by Jacquelyn MARTIN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - APRIL 12: Vice President JD Vance boards Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran on April 12, 2026 in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin - Pool/Getty Images)

Key developments:

  • Iran said the US should refrain from making ‘excessive demands and unlawful requests’, and negotiate with ‘seriousness and good faith’ in a statement from foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei.
  • US vice president JD Vance then gave an update following the conclusion of peace talks, saying Iranian negotiators ‘have chosen not to accept our terms’, including a commitment from Tehran not to seek or develop nuclear weapons;
  • He added: ‘So we go back to the United States, having not come to an agreement.’
  • Iranian state media, citing a source close to its own negotiating team, said there was disagreement on several issues, adding: ‘The Americans demanded through negotiations everything they could not obtain through war.’

Welcome to the Daily Mail’s live coverage

Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East, as US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad appeared to break down on Sunday.

After a 21-hour first day of talks, US vice-president JD Vance announced on Sunday that his negotiating team was leaving Pakistan without reaching a deal.

Vance said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including a commitment to not build nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, Iranian state media said the talks had failed due to the US’s ‘unreasonable demands’.

Vice President JD Vance gives a thumb up sign as he boards Air Force Two after attending talks on Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 12, 2026, . (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)