{"id":579307,"date":"2026-04-12T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579307\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:30:08","slug":"penny-wong-calls-failed-peace-talks-between-us-and-iran-disappointing-and-urges-resumption-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579307\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Wong calls failed peace talks between US and Iran \u2018disappointing\u2019 and urges resumption | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has urged the US and Iran to continue the ceasefire and return to negotiations quickly, after peace talks failed to secure a deal<\/a> or the re-opening of the strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

Historic face-to-face meetings<\/a> in Pakistan \u2013 marking the highest-level of direct engagement between Washington and Tehran in decades \u2013 seemingly broke down<\/a> after a marathon 21-hour first day of talks.<\/p>\n

Wong said it was \u201cdisappointing\u201d the parties could not reach an agreement in Islamabad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe priority now must be to continue the ceasefire and return to negotiations. We continue to want to see a swift resolution to this conflict,\u201d Wong said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny escalation in the conflict would impose an even greater human cost and further impact the global economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The US vice-president, JD Vance, departed Pakistan\u2019s capital on Sunday afternoon AEST empty-handed, saying he did not receive assurances from Iran it would not seek to restore its capabilities for building a nuclear weapon before leaving.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made very clear what our red lines are,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

Iranian state media said that \u201cexcessive\u201d US demands had hindered reaching an agreement and that negotiations had ended.<\/p>\n

The conflict in the Middle East \u2013 and particularly the blockade of the strait of Hormuz \u2013 has been wreaking havoc on global trade supplies.<\/p>\n

The Albanese government has repeatedly warned the impacts of war, even if or when the strait was reopened, would be felt for months.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, warned the pressure on households \u201cwon\u2019t just disappear the moment the ceasefire sticks or the day the strait of Hormuz is properly opened\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven after the drones stop it will take some time to get the global economic show back on the road, and that matters a lot for us as we put a budget together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stakes are pretty high and so we approach this oil shock and its aftershocks with a lot of hard work and humility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The infrastructure minister, Catherine King, said the success of talks between the US and Iran was the \u201cbest chance\u201d at bringing down fuel prices<\/a>, but added the government would consider additional help for Australians in the lead up to the budget.<\/p>\n

Iran has been considering a plan to charge fees<\/a> of up to $US2m ($2.8m) a ship to pass through the strait, with Oman to share the proceeds.<\/p>\n

The shadow defence minister, James Paterson, said he was worried the re-opening of the strait could become a revenue-raising tool for Iran\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is critically important that the end of this conflict does not begin with a new toll booth for the IRGC and the Islamic Republic of Iran, where they get to extort oil tankers as they pass through the strait of Hormuz,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we strongly support the United States efforts to end this conflict on favourable terms for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has urged the US and Iran to continue the ceasefire and return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-579307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}