US-Iran peace talks end after 21 hours without a deal as JD Vance says Tehran didn’t accept ‘our final offer’: Live updates

Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry said that its key east-west oil pipeline and other facilities had been restored following attacks by Iran on infrastructure across the Gulf.

Citing an energy ministry statement, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that the attacks had led to a ‘loss of approximately 700,000 barrels per day of pumping capacity through the east-west pipeline’ and work was underway to restore full production capacity at the kingdom’s Khurais oil field.

The Lebanese president’s office has confirmed that discussions between Israel and Lebanon are expected to begin in Washington on Tuesday.

The announcement came after Israel’s surprise announcement that talks had been authorised, despite both nations lacking official relations.

Israel wants Lebanon’s government to assume responsibility for disarming Hezbollah, which joined the war in its opening days in support of Iran.

The Israeli military says it has ‘dismantled’ an explosives manufacturing lab in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

In a social media post, it says the material included 200 pipe bombs, fire extinguishers, and gas cylinders with potential explosive use, and more than 50 kilograms of improvised explosive material.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that the Israeli operation destroyed a residential building.

On the latest episode of the Daily Mail’s War on Tape, foreign correspondent Chris Pleasance breaks down the military options available to America for seizing the Strait of Hormuz by force and why each would come at a devastating price.

Since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign of Iran, the regime retaliated by blocking the Strait, a vital waterway that accounts for about 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas flows.

Using rudimentary defences: a mix of deep-sea mines, primitive drones, and speedboats, Iran has been able to bring the world economy to its knees. At its peak, Brent crude was selling for $126 a barrel, a faster price rise than during any other conflict in recent history.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei earlier said that the US should refrain from making ‘excessive demands’.

He later added that the peace talks took place in ‘an atmosphere filled with mistrust, suspicion and doubt’, following more than 40 days of ‘imposed war’ and not long after a ceasefire came into force.

Baghaei tells the Iranian state’s Student News Network: ‘We should not have expected from the start that we could reach an agreement in a single session.

‘I don’t think anyone had such expectations.’

He added that ‘diplomacy never ends’.

Six people have been killed in an Israeli raid on the town of Maaroub in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district, the official National News Agency is reporting.

Around an hour-and-a-half ago, US Vice President JD Vance departed Pakistan on Air Force Two, heading back home after no deal was reached with Iran to end the war.

The Iranian delegation has also left Islamabad, state media reported.

• Iran said the US should refrain from making ‘excessive demands and unlawful requests’, and negotiate with ‘seriousness and good faith’ in a statement from foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei.
• US vice president JD Vance then gave an update following the conclusion of peace talks, saying Iranian negotiators ‘have chosen not to accept our terms’, including a commitment from Tehran not to seek or develop nuclear weapons;
• He added: ‘So we go back to the United States, having not come to an agreement.’
• Iranian state media, citing a source close to its own negotiating team, said there was disagreement on several issues, adding: ‘The Americans demanded through negotiations everything they could not obtain through war.’

Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East, as US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad appeared to break down on Sunday.

After a 21-hour first day of talks, US vice-president JD Vance announced on Sunday that his negotiating team was leaving Pakistan without reaching a deal.

Vance said Iran had chosen not to accept American terms, including a commitment to not build nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, Iranian state media said the talks had failed due to the US’s ‘unreasonable demands’.