In response to Kristen Welker’s question on Meet the Press, Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that the U.S. is not at war with Iran. We are at war with Iran’s nuclear program.
“We’re not at war with Iran,” Vance said. “We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.”
He warned against retaliation. An Iranian response to U.S. airstrikes would be “The worst mistake they ever made.”
He told Welker that all munitions performed as expected and achieved the desired attack.
“I’m not going to get into sensitive intelligence about what we’ve seen on the ground there in Iran, but we’ve seen a lot, and I feel very confident that we’ve substantially delayed their development of a nuclear weapon, and that was the goal of this attack,” Vance said.
He separately said during the interview that the U.S. “destroyed the Iranian nuclear program,” adding, “I think we set that program back substantially.”
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When asked if the US would support an Israeli assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Vance said that it would be “up to the Israelis,” and that the US position is “we don’t want a regime change.”
“We didn’t blow up the diplomacy. The diplomacy never was given a real chance by the Iranians,” says Vice President Vance.
“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps they should follow President Trump’s lead and give peace a chance.”
“We didn’t blow up the diplomacy. The diplomacy never was given a real chance by the Iranians,” says @VP.
“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps they should follow President Trump’s lead and give peace a chance.” pic.twitter.com/pJ2tpqekom
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 22, 2025
Today’s Presser
During the Q & A after the morning’s presser, the spokesperson said in response to a question, “I won’t comment on what force protection measures are being taken in the region. What I will say is we’re being proactive and not reactive and being very thoughtful about ensuring that we do all that we can to protect our forces out there.”
A reporter asked if there was a particular moment that the president decided to pull the trigger. Sec. Hegseth said the President has been strongly committed to peace throughout the process.
Hegseth said there are constant messages going to Iran to come to the table.
“We didn’t blow up the diplomacy. The diplomacy never was given a real chance by the Iranians,” says @VP.
“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps they should follow President Trump’s lead and give peace a chance.” pic.twitter.com/pJ2tpqekom
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 22, 2025
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Vance has to support the administration line.
In the campaign, both he and Trump said bombing Iran was not in USA interest.
First the Iranians threatened the US if we attacked their nuclear facilities. Next, the Iranians said they had evacuated 100% of the people, equipment and material from the facilities, so they say the bombings did nothing. Now the Iranians are going to go to war with the world by closing the straits of hormuz, over the bombing that they say… Read more »
How dare Iran threaten to retaliate if we bombed them! And how dare they evacuate facilities they knew may be hit any time! How dare they resent us destroying billions of equipment! What gall they have!
YOU are going to war with Iran because you you don’t know the difference between right and wrong. It has been propagandized right out of your mind.
VP Vance demonstrated his ability to carefully define American policy, clearly showing that the USA wants peace and is willing to remove major threats to world peace. With him in office, I believe the world is a safer place.
With you walking the streets, it is a far more dangerous place. As long as “the office” Vance is usurping from exists, the world is in danger.