J.D. Vance
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And then, yes, you have some crazy people at the fringes of the Iranian system who are leaking anonymously either for propaganda purposes or because they're embarrassed or because they don't like what happened.
The president of the United States has made very clear that the United States has a lot of leverage here.
We have economic leverage.
We've got military leverage.
What he's trying to do is make sure the American people are safe and strike a deal that's good for the American people.
I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.
I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't.
We never made that promise.
We never indicated that was going to be the case.
What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
How is this negotiation even going to work?
I actually wonder how good he is at understanding English, because there are things that he said that frankly didn't make sense in the context of the negotiations that we've had.
A lot of agreement.
That's point number one.
Point number two, to respond to each of those issues, and I read it very closely.
Let me just say this.
I actually wonder how good he is at understanding English because there are things that he said that frankly didn't make sense in the context of the negotiations that we've had.
But to address the three points, first of all, he talked about an attack that allegedly happened on Iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire.
Ceasefires are always messy.
An hour after the president announced the ceasefire, the Iranians launch a bunch of missiles.