Iran walked out of the negotiations. Pakistan and Qatar praised the U.S., but that couldn’t change the mistakes made by the U.S. The entire episode was a bit surreal.
So how did Vance’s negotiations go today?
Amjad Taha أمجد طه, an Emirati expert, pointed to diplomatic mistakes JD Vance made:
This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don’t understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.
The visuals from Switzerland:
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- The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn’t wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.
- Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn’t just abandon allies, including Israel, but you also diminished America’s image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.
- The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn’t need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.
This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don’t understand politics, you should at least understand… pic.twitter.com/NVWAxr8NMH
— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) June 21, 2026
More Planned Humiliation
Ghalibaf refused to take a photo with Vice President Vance and walked out of the negotiations. They said it was in response to Trump’s threats.
President Trump said, “You close [the Strait], and you won’t have a country. You won’t even make it BACK to your f**king country.” That was after Iran said it would close the Strait over Israel’s bombing of Hezbollah, which was reportedly a response to Hezbollah’s bombing.
They walked out and said negotiations are over. They only attended to walk out and send a message home.
Israel and Hezbollah are bombing each other. Israel is occupying parts of southern Lebanon.
BREAKING: Iran’s negotiating delegation led by Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf refused to take a photo with US Vice President Vance and the American side before walking out of the Switzerland negotiation venue in protest of Trump’s threats, with a member of Iran’s delegation saying… pic.twitter.com/S4vc4pwMMQ
— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) June 21, 2026
