🇺🇸 — Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

📌 For the military section, there are a few points that still hold true whether Iranians cooperate with others or not.

Their nuclear program has been completely destroyed. Their enrichment capacity, the facilities they used to develop enrichment and potentially develop a nuclear weapon, have all been destroyed.
❗️ Their conventional military force remains destroyed. Their capacity to threaten their neighbors has largely been eliminated.

👀 Now we see whether they are willing to comply with the next step of the President's peace plan or not.

JD Vance, Vice President, on Iran:

💬 I have seen people who doubt this agreement — people who say Iranians will never change their behavior.

Well, maybe that is true, and if so, they will receive none of the benefits of this deal. But isn’t it worth trying?

🇺🇸 — JD Vance, Vice President, on Iran:

⌛ I say the 60-day period officially starts today.

So yes, yesterday's agreement started it — we will start the 60-day clock today.

JD Vance, the Vice President, on the ballistic missiles of the terrorist Islamic Republic:
📌 All the President said yesterday is that, of course, countries do not give up their right to self-defense.

🇮🇱 Israel does not give up its right to self-defense if Hezbollah fires rockets or drones at Israel.

Iranians do not give up their right to self-defense in their country, but we expect that as part of the final agreement, they will not be able to build missiles that can broadly threaten the whole world, and that is exactly what the President of the United States said yesterday.

And look, it’s very simple: you cannot tell a country — whether Israel or Iran — that it does not have the right to self-defense.

🇺🇸 Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

📌 We hold all the cards.

If the Iranians want to benefit from the agreement, they must give us what is necessary to obtain those benefits.

🇺🇸🔴Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

We did not see this as a big advantage for the Iranians, and honestly, the Iranians themselves did not see it as an advantage, because what was preventing their oil sales was not the sanctions.
They were selling a large amount of oil without any discount because the sanctions were essentially ineffective at that time.
The sanctions caused Iran's financial system to shift somewhat to a shadow banking system.


⛔️By lifting the sanctions, we will actually be able to see a bit where their financial system sends money and where it receives money. This is a real advantage.

🇺🇸 Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

What I say to some critics of the agreement, those who say "Well, Iran will get all these benefits."❗️

💡 I repeat what I have said and probably need to say several times: What advantage do the Iranians gain that they did not have before? And the answer is none.

⚠️ They gain nothing unless they change their behavior. If they change their behavior, that is something to celebrate.

🇺🇸🔴Vice President J.D. Vance on Israel in Lebanon:

We talk with Bibi or someone in the Israeli government just as we talk almost every day with the Gulf coalition, our regional partners, at least at a high level of our government.
⛔️No one can take away another country's right to self-defense — Israel has the right to defend itself.

But essentially, Israelis, just like everyone else, must respect this peace process which is fundamentally good for themselves and the entire region.

🇺🇸 JD Vance, the Vice President, on Israel in Lebanon:

👀⚡️ It seems we are right on the verge of a major breakthrough in the agreement, and suddenly a large explosion occurs in a civilian population center in Beirut, killing many people who have no connection to Hezbollah.

🚫 This is unacceptable. This is exactly why we have called for closer coordination to ensure that such a thing does not happen.

U.S. Vice President Vance:

My message to the people in Bibi’s government who are attacking Trump – don’t attack the only leader in the world who supports you.

Your country was built with our money.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 — WATCH: JD Vance attacks members of the Israeli government who criticized of the deal:

“Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.

If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.

Over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected Israel have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.

The problem for Israel is not Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in.”

🇺🇸Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

Obama's nuclear deal allowed enrichment — our deal does not allow that.
Obama's deal allowed the accumulation of weapons-grade material; our deal actually leads to the destruction of that enriched material stockpile.
Obama's deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money; this deal gives them no American dollars.

🇺🇸 U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

✔️ They have made very clear nuclear commitments. They have committed to destroying the highly enriched stockpile they possess.

⚠️ All we have done is lift the blockade in the strait — essentially returning it to the state it was in before the conflict.

🇺🇸 U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on the Iran deal:

💬 Whether these things are written or spoken, this is why we structured the deal we made, because we don't trust words. We trust actions and behavior.

📌 Words don't matter, ladies and gentlemen, we care about verification and validation.

🇺🇸🔴Vice President J.D. Vance on Iran:

Let's assume that two years from now, they have done what we need to see in the nuclear program and we lift the sanctions according to the agreement.
Then they decide to rebuild the nuclear program.
Of course, in that case, the sanctions will return.

⛔️This really looks like a dial: the more they improve their behavior, the more economic facilities we can increase; if they reduce their good behavior, we can cut it off.

🇺🇸 Vice President J.D. Vance on the Iran agreement:

🔴 The fact is that we signed the memorandum of understanding on Sunday. This solidified the terms of the agreement.

💬 The Iranians told us: "We prefer not to release the text until Friday." I really didn’t understand this. I wanted to release the text immediately. But to cooperate with them, we said: "Okay, we will wait until Friday."

⌛ And then during Monday and Tuesday, while President Trump was at the G7 summit, perhaps foreign leaders were talking to the Iranians and encouraging them to do this.

💬 We definitely told them: "We understand your desire not to release the text until Friday, but you know we live in a democratic system. The American people want to see the text of this agreement. We definitely want to release it as soon as possible."

📌 So they decided that their president would sign it, our president would sign it, and then the text would be immediately released as a signed document.

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