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The peace talks failed, so now Donald Trump wants to disrupt the vital oil shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, even further.

A US blockade will stop ships entering or departing Iranian ports, but will it really work to bring an end to the conflict?

Today, Hussein Abish from the Arab Gulf States Institute on what to expect and why this is becoming very much like a forever war.

I'm Sam Hawley on Gadigal land in Sydney.

This is ABC News Daily.

Hussein, J.D.

Vance, the vice president, he has largely been missing from this war.

But over the weekend, he was the chief negotiator at these peace talks in Pakistan.

Just tell me, why was that, do you think?

All right, so Vance didn't want the war, and now he's actually tasked with ending it.

Exactly.

But 21 hours of talks, of course, he failed to reach a deal.

He announced that himself.

And that's less than a full day.

I mean, historically, peace talks take a bit longer, right?