{"id":580498,"date":"2026-04-12T22:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:11:10","slug":"opinion-they-the-iran-u-s-peace-talks-failed-at-least-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580498\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | They the Iran-U.S. peace talks failed, at least for now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YURS2YVBD5FEZFJHCWAPRD3JYQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Mark A. Fowler is a retired CIA case officer and Iran specialist.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DFBFKERK7NDV7GLV5P5SNC4WY4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/04\/11\/us-iran-islamabad-hormuz-ceasefire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JD Vance flew out of Pakistan<\/a> this weekend after more than 20 hours of negotiations from Saturday into Sunday, pulling the plug on the talks with Iranian officials after failing to produce an agreement to end the war with Iran. Within hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/04\/12\/world\/iran-war-trump-talks-pakistan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an Iranian official said<\/a> more talks were still possible. No telling how potential discussions will be affected by the naval blockade of Iran that President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/04\/12\/iran-us-talks-ceasefire-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Sunday<\/a> out of frustration over the failed negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark A. Fowler is a retired CIA case officer and Iran specialist. Vice President JD Vance flew out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,217596,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-580498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-partner-exclude","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580498","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=580498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}