Mahmoud Nabavian, member of Iran’s negotiating team, says the US had two main demands during the Islamabad talks: the complete opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the withdrawal of all 60 per cent- enriched nuclear material from Iran, Al Jazeera reports.

In comments shared by the ISNA news outlet, Nabavian is quoted as saying that Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that although the US could strike Iran’s infrastructure, Iran could also “raze all the infrastructure in the region to the ground in less than half a day”.

“The US said $6 billion in frozen assets [would] be released if Iran cooperated with the demands,” Nabavian adds.

He further says that after contacting US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance suggested that negotiations continue based on the plan presented by Washington, to which Ghalibaf agreed.

“However, Vance suddenly announced that Trump would not accept the agreement,” Nabavian says.

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