The historic peace talks have officially collapsed and a massive military escalation could happen at any second.

After 21 hours of talks, Vice President JD Vance has walked out.

The war can now start at any moment.

And in fact, it might already be escalating by the time you’re watching this video.

So, let’s look at what happened and where things went wrong.

Now, as some of you guys may already know, negotiations were ongoing all of Friday night and pretty much all of Saturday.

Then there was a break and we had reports saying that both sides just needed a rest and they would restart the next morning.

But then Vice President JD Vance held an impromptu press conference and dropped this bombshell.

Take a listen to what he said.

>> Whatever shortcomings of the negotiation, it wasn’t because of the Pakistanis who did an amazing job and really tried to help us and the Iranians bridge the gap and get to a deal.

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 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.

>> Now, we did not have a lot of leaks coming out as to how the negotiations were progressing while they were still ongoing.

Personally speaking, I thought this was a positive sign.

I figured they are making progress.

So, there were no leaks coming out.

But we did get a little bit of leaks like every here and there.

And one of the leaks was suggesting that hey, negotiations would actually continue for days.

In fact, Pakistani officials were saying before the negotiations even started that they expected talks to go into Monday, maybe even Tuesday.

And guess what? Literally 30 minutes before Vance’s press conference, the Iranian government put out a statement saying, “Hey, we are taking a break for the night, but will resume talking on Sunday.

” And this is exactly why I avoid reporting anything the Iranian media puts out, because 99.

9% of time, they’re just making stuff up.

And 30 minutes after this Iranian statement, Vance basically said that, “Hey, Iran is not accepting any of America’s red lines.

So talks are off.

” Then everyone started moving very fast after that.

Within 15 minutes of this press conference ending, both sides were off to the airport and they were already in the air.

Now, we actually don’t have a lot of details as to what went wrong during the talks, but JD Vance did answer a couple of questions.

So, let’s hear what he shared.

>> They’ve rejected here.

Um, can you can you help us understand it a little bit? >> 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.

Now, some people will argue that Iran has already said that they’re not going to build a nuclear weapon, but that’s not what the United States is looking for.

And the reason for this is that Iran has already shown that they are willing to lie to the public.

They said they don’t want nuclear weapons, but they were enriching their uranium to 60% enrichment.

You don’t enrich that high if you just want nuclear energy.

You enrich it if you want to build a nuclear weapon.

And this is exactly why the United States has been pushing Iran to commit to zero enrichment on its territory.

In fact, before the war started, US even offered Iran unlimited enriched uranium for their nuclear power plants for free.

Meaning Iran wouldn’t have to buy or produce anything.

US was willing to foot the bill and only thing Iran had to do was not build any enrichment facility inside of Iran.

Any logical country that just wanted nuclear power for its citizens would have taken this deal because this is literally you getting a huge discount on generating that nuclear power.

But no, Iran said no.

And the reason for this is pretty simple.

Iran doesn’t want enrichment for nuclear energy.

They want it so they can keep blackmailing the world.

That’s exactly why they enriched uranium to 60% already.

They want it as negotiating leverage.

And their leverage is basically Iran saying that, hey, give us what we want or we’ll build a nuclear bomb.

And this is exactly why the war started.

And now, now that the war is already ongoing, the US is pushing even harder.

Zero enrichment.

And likely the United States is also asking Iran to give up the 400 kg or 900 lb of enriched uranium that Iran has buried somewhere in a nuclear site.

This is where perspective comes in.

US does not think that it’s losing this war and Iran also does not think that it’s losing this war.

Even though the Iranian supreme leader is dead, Iranian officials are dead, Iranian navy is gone, Iranian air force is gone, they don’t even control their airspace.

But nonetheless, Iranian officials right now don’t think that they’re losing this war and that’s why they’re not really willing to change their position as compared to before this war started.

So as of right now, it seems it’s going to be very hard to negotiate at least on this point.

Now, of course, as some of you guys may already know, this isn’t the only point of contention.

There are other points, too.

So, let’s take a listen to other questions that Vance answered to you.

These are very short.

So, I do want to listen to the whole thing.

Take a listen, >> Jen.

>> Was there a framework on anything? And also, did the Iranian frozen assets come up and did you reach any conclusions on on those frozen assets? >> We talked about all those issues, Jen, and we talked about a number of issues beyond that.

And so certainly those things came up, but again 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 weren’t able to make um make any headway.

Preston, >> Mr.

Vice President, how often did you communicate with President Trump throughout the negotiations? There were reports that there were multiple rounds uh where there were breaks in between negotiations.

How often did you communicate with the president throughout those rounds and what was he saying as you were going through these negotiations that you said fell short? >> 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 Bassin 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.

This entire press conference was about 4 and 1/2 minutes and I think that might be a world record for the shortest VP press conference ever in the history.

Now at the end, Vance also confirmed that the US was very flexible in its new terms.

My guess here is that that flexibility relates to Iran’s ballistic missile program.

You see, from the start of the negotiations to now, US demands relating to this ballistic missile program have actually gotten softer.

Here’s what I mean.

Initially, US was asking for Iran to basically give up the whole ballistic missiles program.

And now the most recent proposal before yesterday’s negotiations, we saw US basically allow Iran to have some kind of program but with limits on the range of the ballistic missiles and also on the quantity.

And I’m guessing yesterday US probably offered even more concessions relating to their ballistic missile program because at the end of the day maybe this is one point where US is like hey if we give them something maybe they would be willing to accept other demands but it doesn’t seem like Iran is willing to do that and US demands have stayed pretty similar from the beginning.

US is asking for zero enrichment return the enriched uranium and of course no funding for the proxies.

Now, that last demand is exactly the one we actually have no information about.

We don’t know if US offered any concessions relating to the proxy demand, but I’m guessing we’ll find that out on Sunday.

Right now, I’m recording on Saturday morning, so all the information that we do have is from that press conference that Vance just did.

Now, another thing that was interesting about the press conference was that Vance made no comments about the straight of Hermoose.

And we know this was discussed because Iran’s deputy foreign minister confirmed it in his statement.

Take a look.

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Now, let’s look at this statement.

It is a pretty long one and it says pretty much nothing.

It’s like a lot of words basically giving no information.

But in the fourth paragraph, he confirms that discussions were held on various dimensions including the straight of Hermoose.

Now, we know that Iran wants to keep the strait under their control, but no country in the world would actually agree to.

More specifically, the Arab countries who are right there on the Gulf.

Why would Saudi tankers pay Iran a toll when Saudi Arabia is sitting right there on the other side? Why would Qatari tankers or Kuwaiti tankers or Iraqi tankers would pay a toll to Iran? It just makes no sense.

And you know what? Even Iran knows this.

They probably want a temporary control or something else in return because Iran knows US is not going to pay any reparations for this war.

So they’re hoping this toll booth idea is their way to make some money back to pay for the damages or maybe even pay for the ballistic missiles that were destroyed during this war.

But I’m very very doubtful that Iran is actually going to get anything on this point.

That’s probably why Vance didn’t even bring this up or give any information relating to this in the press conference.

And guess what? If Iran actually continues making the state of Hermoose dangerous even after this war, well then it’s going to have a war with a bunch of other countries around the world including the Gulf countries itself.

Now moving forward, as you guys heard at the end of that press conference Q&A, JD Vans did confirm that Iran now has the US proposal.

It has US red lines.

They can either accept it or not.

I’m not exactly sure what this means.

Does this mean that war is now on? Or does this mean that we’re going to wait for the twoe ceasefire to expire and then the war is on? Because that’s probably going to be very interesting for all the Iranian leaders who came to these negotiations.

I’m sure US intelligence and US drones are tracking their movement right when they land in Iran.

And remember, that’s exactly how we got Ali Larazani, the previous deacto leader of Iran.

He came out for this big parade, the Kurts parade, I think.

And then a few days later, a missile struck exactly where he was hiding.

US was able to track his movements because he came out for this big parade.

And that’s basically what these Iranian leaders did too.

They were in hiding, but they came out for the negotiations.

They didn’t want to accept anything that US was offering.

And now US and Israeli intelligence can track exactly where they’re going to go back and do hiding.

So I’m sure that’s something they’re extremely worried about.

Now there’s another major development that took place yesterday.

Pentagon confirmed that US warships did in fact go into the straight of Hermuz and then came back out.

They were in the Persian Gulf for a few hours and this was despite Iranian forces warning US warships that hey we’re going to attack but US called their bluff and nothing actually happened.

Now, we covered this yesterday, but now we have more details as to what happened and we know exactly how the conversation between US warships and Iranian forces went.

We have exact quotes.

So, let’s look at this.

When US ship was going in, the Iranian forces radioed into one of the destroyers and said, “This is the last warning.

This is the last warning.

” This is when the US ship responded saying, “Pass is in accordance with international law.

No challenges intended to you and I intend to abide by rules of our government’s ceasefire.

I’m guessing Iranian forces study US history because they knew firing on a US warship would have been a pretty good way to escalate this war into something that Iran could not afford.

Now, of course, Iran actually does not have the capabilities to sink a US warship.

All this time, Iran has been destroying civilian ships.

These ships have no way to defend themselves.

That’s not the case for a US warship.

and Iran knew its limits.

That’s why nothing actually happened.

Now, on top of this, when Central Command confirmed this journey, they also confirmed that they have started clearing Iranian mines using underwater drones.

Here’s more details.

Take a listen.

>> USS Michael Murphy and the USS Frank E.

Peterson are searching for any Iranian mines while trying to establish a clear and safe path.

Underwater drones will also be used in the coming days.

Now, the street of war moose is considered very treacherous right now as the New York Times reports Iran may not be able to fully detect where the Iranian regime may have dropped mines.

Sentcom writing, “Today we begin the process of establishing a new passage, and we will share this safe pathway with the maritime industry soon to encourage the free flow of commerce.

” Now, since Tuesday’s ceasefire, roughly more than a dozen ships have passed through the straight, but that’s a fraction of the usual number.

Iran’s blockage has created multiple global problems, including a a shortage of jet fuel.

President Trump is even trying to attract empty tankers to the US, writing massive numbers of completely empty oil tankers.

Some of the largest anywhere in the world are heading right now to the United States to load up with the best and sweetest oil and gas anywhere in the world.

We have more oil than the next two largest oil economies combined and higher quality.

We are waiting for you.

Quick turnaround.

President Donald J.

Trump.

Now, I do want to show you guys a map of all the tankers that are heading to the United States.

Take a look at that row coming from Asia, going down to Africa, then coming up to the United States.

All of these are heading to the United States.

And some of these are actually coming here to Houston to pick up US oil and take it back to Asian countries.

You see, before the war, almost 90% of oil that flowed through the straight of Hermoose went to Asian countries.

And now, these countries, a lot of them don’t have large reserves.

So they need constant flow of oil coming in and since they cannot get it from Gulf countries, they’re trying to get it from the United States.

Now that the negotiations have failed, we don’t exactly know how long it will take for the straight of Hermoose to open up.

Because remember, it’s not just about US warship going in and out.

It’s about if tankers and the captains of these tankers and companies would have confidence in the safety of the state of Hermoose so they can send the tankers back in and come back out.

as long as they don’t feel safe.

State of Hermoose is basically close even if Iranians don’t actually have any ability to take down the tankers.

So that’s something we’ll have to wait and see.

I’m sure on Sunday we’ll get more information as to what happened in the negotiations, what were other points of contestions and everything like that.

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