J.D. Vance
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We don't really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do
We concern ourselves with what they actually do.
And I think the president's been very clear on the enrichment question.
Our position on that has not changed.
The NATO summit in Washington, when NATO was celebrating the 75 years, there was an agreement on the irreversible path of Ukraine into NATO.
But also the fact of the matter is that a couple of countries are holding back, including Germany and Slovakia, Hungary, the United States.
So I don't think it is on the table right now.
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.
And the final point when I say they don't like what happened, what we know is that the United States accomplished its military objectives.
What we know is the United States could have imposed significant additional military and economic costs on Iran and still has the capacity to do so.
But we thankfully at this point, I think, have a ceasefire thanks to the leadership of the President of the United States.
We have the Iranians promising to open the Straits of Hormuz, and we have a negotiation that's supposed to start this weekend.
That's the truth.
I think it's a good first step.
We're going to see if we can make more progress here in the days to come.
This is one of the things that's going to be one of the main subjects of negotiation is that we want Iran to not be able to make a nuclear weapon.
We want the nuclear fuel, which is something the president has made very clear.
And again, the way to think about this is the United States has certain demands and certain things that we want.
The Iranians have things they can get out of the negotiation.
The more that they're willing to give us, I think the more they're going to get things out of this negotiation.