Vance warns US could resume war: ‘That’s kind of up to the Iranians’

Vice President Vance on Wednesday appeared open to the idea that the United States could resume its war against Iran should the ongoing 60-day ceasefire end without a peace agreement in place.

“The president is not going to send our military back in unless he has to, unless there’s a clearly defined purpose for it,” Vance told reporters after speaking at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va. “If we’ve got to do more, of course, that’s kind of up to the Iranians. If they try to rebuild their nuclear program, if they try to start shooting at commercial vessels again, that’s going to change our calculus.”

He added: “But right now what the president has said is, go and make a deal, go and negotiate in good faith, and that’s what he’s empowered us to do.”

The U.S. has been in a tenuous ceasefire with Iran since April after it spent seven weeks bombing the Middle Eastern country over what the Trump administration has........

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