Vance: U.S. Approaching Iran Negotiations With ‘Good Faith’, But Mindful of Wreckers Within Iranian Hierarchy
U.S. Vice President JD Vance sounded a warning on competing factions within Iran, with some open to good faith negotiation with the U.S. in the coming weeks and other spoilers, in comments to a Hungarian university.
The Mathias Corvinus Collegium received apologies from the U.S. Vice President for his late arrival on Wednesday morning, given he had been up “very late last night” negotiating a temporary truce between the United States, Iran, and Israel. Even before that ceasefire got off to a bumpy start as Wednesday wore on, with apparent confusion over what the agreement actually contained, Vance warned his audience that the “fragile truce” was under threat from spoiler elements inside Iranian society who don’t want peace to succeed.
Hailing the achievements of the U.S. military in the conflict to date, Vance reflected he had “learnt a lot about the Iranian system, and a lot about the way the Iranians negotiate” over the course of talks so far and explained that there were several competing factions within Iranian society, and that while the U.S. had been speaking to what seemed to be the most powerful — the Iranian foreign minister — others were dead-set against peace with America. He said:
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