Ammon News - The US president, Donald Trump, has not yet formally commented on the breakdown of peace talks with Iran in Islamabad. But he just shared a link in a post on his Truth Social platform, to an article titled “The Trump card the president holds if Iran won’t bend: a naval blockade”.

The article – by John Solomon, a controversial veteran US journalist, and published on Solomon’s conservative Just the News website – cites experts who suggest Trump “simply could out-blockade Iran’s hold over the Strait of Hormuz”.

This came when the U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end their war despite lengthy talks that concluded on Sunday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, ​jeopardising a fragile ceasefire.

Each side blamed the other for the failure of the 21-hour-long negotiations to end fighting that has killed thousands and sent global oil prices soaring since ‌it began over six weeks ago.

"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," Vice President JD Vance, the head of the U.S. delegation, told reporters shortly before he left Islamabad.

"So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our red lines are."

The ​U.S. delegation later left Pakistan, while the Iranians were to depart later on Sunday, two Pakistani sources told Reuters.
Vance said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including not to ​build nuclear weapons.

"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."