As the risk of renewed conflict with Iran increases, Vice President JD Vance has messaged the top hard-line leader in Tehran saying that he’s ready to meet him personally to discuss a negotiated settlement to the war.

Vance sent a letter last week to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and former leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The letter and its intent were described to me by a U.S. official who’s familiar with the negotiations. The message was first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal.

As the risk of renewed conflict with Iran increases, Vice President JD Vance has messaged the top hard-line leader in Tehran saying that he’s ready to meet him personally to discuss a negotiated settlement to the war.

Vance sent a letter last week to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and former leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The letter and its intent were described to me by a U.S. official who’s familiar with the negotiations. The message was first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal.

The letter “focused on reasserting the primacy of national interest—both America’s and Iran’s—in negotiations,” the official said. Vance stressed that the central U.S. interest “is in ensuring Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.” The vice president described Iran’s interest as “rebuilding [its] war- and sanctions-ravaged economy, and in........

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