Vance says no US-Iran peace deal after talks

[0:00]We have been at it now for 21 hours and uh 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 we're not willing to accommodate them on. And uh we've made that as clear as we possibly could. And they have chosen not to accept our terms. Well, I won't go into all the details because I don't want to negotiate 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. We we we just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I 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 were able to make um make any headway. Yeah, obviously we were we were talking to the President consistently. Um I don't know how many times we talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously also talked to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marco, to the entire national security team. We talked to Scott a number of times. So, look we we were constantly in communication with the team because we were negotiating in good faith. And uh 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. Thank you.