'Historic' US Iran talks end without deal
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Marathon talks between senior US and Iranian officials on ending the Middle East conflict have ended in failure. Speaking after the negotiations in Pakistan, US Vice President, JD Vance, said they could not reach an agreement, and he was leaving after putting forward a 'final and best offer'. Iran said the talks were 'intensive' but the US made 'unreasonable demands'. Meanwhile, Israel has continued to attack the Iranian proxy militia, Hezbollah in Lebanon with more than 20 people reported to have been killed on Saturday. Also: parties in Hungary have held their final rallies, ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election, concluding what has been an acrimonious campaign with Prime Minister Viktor Orban trailing in the polls; NASA welcomes home the four astronauts of the Artemis mission, at a rapturous reception in Houston, after they made it safely back to Earth from the far side of the Moon. And, the new book shedding fresh light on the infamous five British intellectuals who were recruited at Cambridge University to spy for Russia in the 1930s.
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| 0:34.9 | The US Vice President Jodie V, has said marathon talks with Iran |
| 0:38.4 | in Pakistan have not ended in a deal to end the conflict in the Middle East. Hungarians are voting |
| 0:44.4 | in a parliamentary election that's been keenly watched far beyond the boundaries of Europe with |
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| 1:12.2 | The four crew members of the Artemis Moon Mission have been given an emotional news conference at a welcome home ceremony in Houston. Well, of course, all day, it's been all eyes on |
| 1:23.3 | Islamabad in Pakistan, where American and Iranian officials have been locked in hours of truly |
| 1:29.7 | historic talks. Talks aimed at not just bringing to a permanent end, almost six weeks of war, |
| 1:35.8 | but at resetting relations between two countries antagonizing each other for 47 years since the |
| 1:41.9 | Iranian revolution, a reset with huge implications for the Middle East |
| 1:46.1 | and possibly even more widely. But after 21 hours, according to the U.S. Vice President, |
| 1:52.0 | J.D. Vance, it's come to a crashing halt and the Americans are flying home. |
| 1:57.2 | 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 the 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 |
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