Trump Says No Deal Needed with Iran, Ceases Vance's Negotiations

Today, President Donald Trump suggested he was dialing back diplomatic efforts to resolve the U.S./Israel conflict with Iran and ending a deal-making effort by Vice President JD Vance in favor of leaving a naval blockade in place and continuing to pressure the Iranian economy.

In recent days, Vance had started outreach to hard-liners in Tehran to explore the possibility of a negotiated end to the conflict that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and impose limits on Iran's nuclear program after more than eight months of war, which the U.S. and Israel launched in February.

The war — and the jump in gas and food prices that has come with it — is deeply unpopular among U.S. voters, who delivered a historic defeat to Republicans in the midterm elections last week. The day after the election, Vance made an unusual public break with the president, writing that the war had been one of the causes of the election loss.

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