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Iran says was ‘inches away’ from deal with US in Islamabad
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday that Tehran had been just “inches away” from a deal with Washington during weekend talks with the United States in Islamabad.
“In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with US in good faith to end war,” Araghchi said in a post on X.
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But when “just inches away” from an agreement in Islamabad, which he described as “Islamabad MoU,” he added: “We encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade.”
“Zero lessons earned,” Araghchi added.
In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S in good faith to end war.
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) April 12, 2026
But when just inches away from "Islamabad MoU", we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade.
Zero lessons earned
Good will begets good will.
Enmity begets enmity.
Weekend talks between the US and Iran failed to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, jeopardizing a fragile two-week ceasefire.
The talks in Islamabad, which ran from Saturday into early Sunday, were the first direct US-Iranian meeting in more than a decade and the highest-level discussions since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Read more: US military to begin blockade of Iran ports after talks fail to yield a deal
