Vice President JD Vance told reporters Wednesday that Lebanon was never part of the United States’ ceasefire with Iran, and it would be dumb of Iran to let negotiations disintegrate over Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
Vance made the comments as he was departing Hungary for the United States.
“I actually think—and there’s a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda going on—I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding,” Vance said. “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
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“We never indicated that was going to be the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America’s allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states,” he added.
Vance said that Israel, as he understands it, has “offered… frankly to check themselves
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