"Unreasonable demands" by the United States scuppered talks in Islamabad to end the war in the Middle East, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB has said. "The Iranian delegation negotiated continuously and intensively for 21 hours in order to protect the national interests of the Iranian people; despite various initiatives from the Iranian delegation, the unreasonable demands of the American side prevented the progress of the negotiations," IRIB said on Telegram. "Thus the negotiations ended." Iran’s Fars news agency, citing sources, said that the US was looking for an excuse to leave the negotiating table. (full story)