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Trump pulls Vance from Iran talks in bet on shaky status quo

Trump pulls Vance from Iran talks in bet on shaky status quo

U.S. President Donald Trump said he told Vice President JD Vance not to negotiate with Iran and suggested the conflict could end without a deal.

U.S. President Donald Trump has floated a new strategy for his war against Iran: leave the conflict in limbo and walk away.On Thursday, Trump said he told Vice President JD Vance not to negotiate with Iran and suggested the conflict could end without a deal to impose agreed-upon limits on Tehran’s nuclear weapons program — after repeatedly stressing that was why the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran in the first place.“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump wrote on social media. “Those days have long since passed.”

In brief

President Donald Trump has floated a new strategy for his war against Iran: leave the conflict in limbo and walk away.On Thursday, Trump said he told Vice President JD Vance not to negotiate with Iran and suggested the conflict could end without a deal to impose agreed-upon limits on Tehran’s nuclear weapons program — after repeatedly stressing that was why the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran in the first place.“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump wrote on social media. “Those days have long since passed.”

This is the opening of the story, shared with credit to The Japan Times. The rest of the report — with every detail — continues on the publisher’s website.

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