President Donald Trump said Thursday he wants Vice President JD Vance off Iran negotiations and focused entirely on investigating corruption in Democratic-run cities and states.
Trump announced the shift in a Truth Social post. He wrote that he had asked Vance to give his “complete and total attention” to what he called massive corruption and crime in cities and states run by Democrats, and added: “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed.”
The move reverses course days after Trump told aides he was open to Vance restarting talks with Tehran. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Vance was weighing face-to-face talks with Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and that Trump had given him authority to negotiate.
Vance had led the administration’s Iran efforts for months. On Wednesday, after Republicans lost the midterm elections, he questioned whether the war had been worth its cost and blamed it for the party’s losses.
With Vance out of the role, special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner remain the administration’s main negotiators with Iran, according to the New York Post.
Source: Reuters
