Former Vice President Mike Pence warned Vice President JD Vance that the Trump administration must not repeat the same mistakes as had under the Obama and Biden years regarding the U.S.-Iran relationship.
During an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Pence said, “The last thing we want is another Iran nuclear deal. The president and I got out of that deal back during our administration. We put a maximum pressure campaign on. Biden immediately returned to office and went back to the politics of appeasement.”
“My prayer is, as the vice president and our negotiation team goes to Pakistan, is that they draw that line and say, ‘That’s what we need you to agree to.’ We hold them to that deal in the months and years ahead,” he said, adding, “President Trump has reversed that and created the conditions where I think we have a pathway to a diplomatic solution, but we’ve got to have the sheer, incredible force of the United States of America and our allies behind us to enforce it.”
Speaking during a conference in Hungary, Vance called the truce with Iran “fragile.”
“You have people who clearly want to come to the negotiating table and work with us to find a good deal, and then you have people who are lying about even the fragile truce that we’ve already struck.”
“If the Iranians are willing in good faith to work with us, I think we can make an agreement,” he continued. “If they’re going to lie, if they’re going to cheat, if they’re going to try to prevent even the fragile truce that we’ve set up from taking place, that they’re not going to be happy.”
