Prior to his departure from Hungary, addressing reporters, US Vice President JD Vance, when prodded about claims by the Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf’s over Washington’s deliberate violation of three components of the ceasefire agreement, said that if Ghalibaf only has three points of disagreement, there must be quite a lot of agreement.
“Ceasefires are always messy,” Vance said, stating that a mere hour after President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire, Iran had fired several missiles against neighbouring countries, leading to the Israelis and then some of the Gulf Arab states to respond.
“This is the nature of a ceasefire,” he said. “No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness. What we have been very clear about is that we want to stop the bombing.
“We want our allies to stop the bombing, and we want the Iranians to do the same thing. We’re seeing evidence that things are going in the right direction, but it’s going to take a little time.”
Vance said he found it “fascinating” that Ghalibaf said Iran refuses its “right” to give up its vast stock of enriched uranium, and said, “We don’t really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do. We concern ourselves with what they actually do.”
