Negotiations always reflect realities on the ground, so US efforts to impose peace terms on Iran were destined to fail. that said, the 1st round of talks always have a throat clearing quality, so chances of a breakthrough were negligible. the diplomatic dance is just beginning.
— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) April 12, 2026
Signs for the ill-fated US-Iran peace talks in Pakistan are already coming down. pic.twitter.com/GlfrDCZgm2
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) April 12, 2026
Trump: “Whether we make a deal or not makes no difference to me because we’ve won” pic.twitter.com/M8xLzK6S9m
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 11, 2026
JD Vance: "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 US. So, we go back to the US having not come to an agreement ... they have chosen not to accept our terms" pic.twitter.com/uqFnwVT76g
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 12, 2026
here's Trump entering a UFC event as Vance says that negotiations with Iran have failed pic.twitter.com/gJ2JwpUML1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 12, 2026
Do they look like serious statesmen?Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 12, 2026
(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty) pic.twitter.com/XKlD1yn3mA
Yep. By abandoning the JCPOA and then once again by starting this war, Trump has completely negated and inverted the incentives the Iranian regime once had to negotiate with us.
— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway3d) April 12, 2026
They once understood that refraining from producing HEU and interfering with navigation of the… https://t.co/JRzTbQTHrO
Yep. By abandoning the JCPOA and then once again by starting this war, Trump has completely negated and inverted the incentives the Iranian regime once had to negotiate with us.
They once understood that refraining from producing HEU and interfering with navigation of the Strait would avert the cost of being subjected a large-scale air attack. But now that we've conducted that attack, and they've withstood it, they have virtually no incentive to refrain from doing the things we want them to refrain from doing.
Which is why we negotiated the JCPOA in the first place, and why no prior American administration (from Reagan to Trump I) ever decided to start the war that Trump started last month.
From my standpoint, I’ve stopped expecting the adults to take over.Trump: Let's see what happens but from my standpoint—I don't care. pic.twitter.com/5NFr1wY5jP
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 11, 2026
“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote."You can’t blockade the Strait! Only I can blockade the strait!” This is how we win friends and influence people? This is how we resume negotiations? We will never be extorted, so… we’ll extort ourselves?
“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted.”
That’ll bring Iran back to the table!Maybe the irrational optimism still priced into various markets will end with this. pic.twitter.com/GeyD1EMPzw
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 12, 2026
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