President Trump tasked Vice President J.D. Vance with a critical mission.
Vance understood the stakes.
And one J.D. Vance about the enemy just said everything.
As West Wing Daily reports:
President Trump delayed his threat to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” to accept a two-week ceasefire to allow for negotiations on a peace deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Vice President Vance led an American delegation to Islamabad, Pakistan, to hold the highest-level meeting by an American official with representatives of the Islamic Republic since 1979.
But, as with previous negotiations with Iran, these talks went nowhere despite Vance and his team spending 21 hours at the negotiating table in hopes of striking a deal.
Vance held a brief press conference following the collapse of the talks to explain why no deal was reached.
“We have been at it now for 21 hours, and we’ve had several substantive discussions with the Iranians. That’s the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America,” Vance began.
“So, we go back to the United States, having not agreed. We’ve made very clear what our red lines are, what things we’re willing to accommodate them on, and what things we’re not willing to accommodate them on. And we’ve made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen not to accept our terms,” Vance added.
Vance told reporters that while there was some progress achieved, the issue boiled down to Iran’s refusal to give assurances that it would not seek a nuclear weapon or hand over its stockpile of Highly Enriched Uranium.
“But the simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal of the President of the United States, and that’s what we’ve tried to achieve through these negotiations,” Vance stated.
“Again, their nuclear programs, such as it is, the enrichment facilities that they’ve – that they had before, they’ve been destroyed. But “the simple question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now, but for the long term? We haven’t seen that yet,” Vance went on to say.
The ball is now in President Trump’s court as to whether he will order further military strikes. Trump previously threatened to blow up all of Iran’s power plants if there was no deal or to walk away and end the war in the initial 6-week time frame that he set out when hostilities began.
