Overview
- Vance left Islamabad after roughly 21 hours of negotiations with Iran without a deal, as core terms on nuclear limits remained far apart.
- Press reports say the U.S. privately floated a 20‑year halt to uranium enrichment while Iran offered five years, and each side rejected the other’s proposal.
- Days earlier in Budapest, his in‑person push for Viktor Orbán failed as the Hungarian leader and his party were routed by Péter Magyar’s opposition after 16 years in power.
- Vance now frames the White House goal as a single “big deal” that would trade verifiable abandonment of nuclear weapons for Iran’s economic opening, with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff among the U.S. envoys.
- CNN’s Harry Enten now pegs Vance’s net approval at −18, a slide that Republicans and analysts say has weakened his standing as a potential 2028 standard‑bearer.