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Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that the failure of negotiations to end the Middle East war stemmed from U.S. attempts to “dictate” the terms of an agreement.
“No negotiations, at least with Iran, will succeed based on ‘our/your terms,’” Zarif said in a post on X.
“The U.S. must learn: you can’t dictate terms to Iran. It’s not too late to learn. Yet,” he added.
Zarif was one of the principal architects of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, which was abandoned in 2018 by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Senior U.S. and Iranian officials held peace talks in Pakistan on Saturday as a fragile two-week ceasefire remained in place.
After the negotiations ended without agreement, Axios cited an unnamed source briefed on the talks as saying the sticking points included Iran’s demand to control the Strait of Hormuz and its refusal to give up its enriched uranium stockpile.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, who led the American delegation, said Sunday that the talks lasted around 21 hours and that Iran had “chosen not to accept our terms.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the two sides had reached an agreement on some points but that “differences remained on two or three important issues.”
It remains unclear whether the two sides will resume talks or what impact the failed negotiations may have on the ceasefire.
Iran has been at war with the United States and Israel since Feb. 28, when strikes killed then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, triggering a conflict that rapidly spread across the Middle East.
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