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Vice President Vance: After Talks, Iranians Determine What's Next
(Fox News) Nora Moriarty - Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on Monday that after face-to-face negotiations with Iranian officials in Pakistan, "The ball is very much in their court....I think the Iranians are going to determine what happens next." "We made a lot of progress. They moved in our direction...but they didn't move far enough." Vance said the talks ultimately ended because "the team that was there was unable to cut a deal. They had to go back to Tehran, either from the supreme leader or somebody else, and actually get approval to the terms that we had set." "What they [Iranians] have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. They've basically threatened any ship that's moving through the Straits of Hormuz. Well, as the President of the United States showed, two can play at that game." "We've stopped bombing the country. What we expect the Iranians to give up is a full reopening of the Straits of Hormuz. If the Iranians are going to try to engage in economic terrorism, we're going to abide by a simple principle that no Iranian ships are getting out either. We know that's a big deal to them. We know it applies additional economic leverage....We have a lot of cards. We have the leverage, and we're going to see what the Iranians do with that."