US Vice President JD Vance said that Iran is not yet willing to acknowledge some of US President Donald Trump's "red lines," particularly those regarding the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, following Tuesday's negotiations in Geneva.
“In some ways it went well, they agreed to meet afterwards, but in other ways it was very clear that the President has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through,” Vance told Fox News.
The American vice president made clear that the US's primary goal is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
"We don't want nuclear proliferation. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, there are a lot of other regimes, some friendly, some not so friendly, who would get nuclear weapons after them," he said.
Vance noted that the US is dealing with a "crazy regime" and referenced Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's Tuesday suggestion that Iran could sink a US warship. "You know, well, one of your nice warships might end up at the bottom of the sea," Vance paraphrased Khamenei as saying.
Vance continued, saying the US has a "very powerful military" that Trump has shown willingness to use. At the same time, Vance went on, the president has also shown a willingness to engage with its "remarkable" diplomatic team.
According to Vance, the US would "very much like" to resolve tensions with Iran through "diplomatic negotiation," and the American government would continue to work toward such a resolution, but "the president reserves the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has reached its natural end."
"We hope we don't get to that point," he said.
The second round of talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva, which concluded on Tuesday, were productive, but significant gaps remain, several sources told The Jerusalem Post that day.
"Progress was made in the talks with Iran, but many details still need to be discussed,” a US official told the Post. According to the official, the Iranians said they would return within two weeks with detailed proposals to bridge some of the remaining gaps with Washington.
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They are crazy like a fox. They will drag out the negotiations until it no longer becomes useful. They gamble on the fact there is a political problem for Trump if things don’t go as planned. They figure the US is not interested in boots on the ground. They can withstand bombing as they did in the past learning from each incident. They know they will likely survive the confrontation intact. But, maybe just maybe things will be different this time. Probably not since prophecy suggests Iran will be present in the final conflict.
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