Thank You For Your Patience on Iran, America
Vice President JD Vance called in to FNC's "Big Weekend Show" on Sunday afternoon to give some details about the administration's deal with Iran: VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: I think it's a big moment for the United States of America, thanks to the president's leadership and the hard work of the entire team. Three things that are important for the American people to appreciate what this deal does for all of us as Americans. - Number one, the immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of the naval blockade with Iran along with it. - The number two thing: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and not pursue a nuclear weapon, but procure and try to buy a nuclear weapon as well. That's built into this agreement. - And the third thing: This only happens, to be clear, if Iran delivers on their promise -- so there is an approach where we verify and Iran benefits as long as Iran meets their end of the obligation. But if the Iranians comply with this deal for the next 50 years, it's going to end the war, it's going to make the Middle East a lot more investible, and create a lot of prosperity and lower energy for the American people. This region has been a basket case for my entire life and longer than that. And what the president has really set us to do is to certainly eliminate the nuclear threat of Iran. That is done. But now, possibly, to build to a new era of Middle East prosperity and success, where it is not a region of the world where the United States has to worry about so much, but frankly, we can generate a lot of prosperity for the American people out of that region. That's a very big win, and it all happened because the president stuck with it. HOST: Mr. Vice President, congratulations. It's a great day, with President Trump's birthday, no less. I wanted to ask you, Mr. Vice President, what your message is to the American people who have hung in there amid the high gas prices, and the president posting on Truth Social, "Fire up your engines.
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Secretary Pete Hegseth explained the differences between the deal President Trump says he's about to sign with Iran and the Obama-era JCPOA, and to what extent the shipping straits will be reopened immediately upon signing, on CBS's "Face the Nation." "From all I know, we are on track. It is not... iran dealiran nuclear crisisPete hegsethTrump administrationIran War
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