President says vice-president will focus on supposed ‘Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States’
Donald Trump has said that the US is no longer seeking a deal to end the war with Iran and ordered JD Vance, who had spearheaded recent efforts to restart negotiations with Iran, to focus on domestic politics instead.
In a post to his social media site on Thursday, Trump said he was redirecting the vice-president to focus his “complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S”.
Vance had reportedly been talking to intermediaries in Iran and Qatar about restarting negotiations to end the war, which began in February when the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. Iran responded by closing access to the strait of Hormuz, which led to a steep increase for the cost of fuel around the globe.
But on Thursday Trump appeared to shut down the negotiations, redirecting Vance to focus on domestic issues and downplaying the need for a final deal.
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump wrote. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
