'Iran not willing to acknowledge Trump's red lines': JD Vance on nuclear talks

Iran has not accepted each of the “red lines” outlined by US President Donald Trump for a diplomatic resolution, Vice President JD Vance said connected Tuesday pursuing the 2nd circular of talks successful Switzerland's Geneva. Vance suggested that the United States remains unfastened to diplomacy, adjacent aft Trump warned that subject enactment could beryllium considered if Iran’s clerical enactment fails to code cardinal concerns, starting with its atomic program. “In immoderate ways, it went well; they agreed to conscionable again,” Vance told Fox News. “But successful different ways, it was wide that the president has established definite reddish lines that the Iranians are not yet prepared to admit oregon enactment through,” helium added. “We volition proceed to prosecute diplomatic efforts. However, the president reserves the close to find erstwhile diplomacy has tally its course. We anticipation it doesn’t travel to that, but if it does, the determination volition beryllium the president’s,” Vance said.Meanwhile, Iranian overseas curate Abbas Araghchi, who participated successful the talks with US peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner successful Geneva, said Tehran and Washington had reached statement connected “guiding principles” for a imaginable woody aimed astatine preventing conflict.

“Ultimately, we were capable to scope wide statement connected a acceptable of guiding principles, based connected which we volition determination guardant and statesman moving connected the substance of a imaginable agreement,” Araghchi told Iranian authorities tv aft the talks, describing them arsenic “more constructive” than the archetypal circular held earlier this month. He besides cautioned, however, that it “would instrumentality clip to narrow” the differences betwixt the 2 countries. Mediated by Oman, the talks were intended to avert imaginable US subject involution against Iran’s atomic program, coming weeks aft the cleric-run Islamic Republic reportedly killed thousands portion suppressing wide protests. For years, Tehran has sought alleviation from sweeping US sanctions, including restrictions preventing different countries from buying Iranian oil.(With AFP inputs)