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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday revealed the details of his conversation with United States Vice President JD Vance, which Iran cited as a reason behind the derailment of peace talks in Islamabad.

Netanyahu gave the account of the call during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Monday. According to him, the call was made by Vance after the 21-hour marathon talks with Iran failed, and the US VP had departed.

"I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane, back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu said that "the explosion in the negotiations" originated on the side of the American delegation as it "could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations".

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He said that the agreement required a ceasefire and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz with immediate effect, which Tehran did not comply.

"The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations. The agreement was that they would cease fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the gates. They did not do that. The Americans could not accept that," the Israeli Prime Minister said.

He cited Vance's speech, saying it was made clear that the central issue for US President Donald Trump and his administration remained "the removal of all enriched material, and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and that could be for decades, no enrichment inside Iran".

"That is their focus, and of course, it is also important to us," he added. He added that it was Tehran's violation of the agreement, which prompted Trump to initiate a naval blockade on Iran.

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Netanyahu's clarification of the said phone call came a day after Iranian media, citing Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who claimed that the phone call during the negotiations derailed progress.

"Netanyahu's call to Vance during the meeting shifted the focus from US-Iran negotiations to Israel's interests," Araghchi wrote on X, Press TV reported.


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