US Vice President JD Vance has pushed back on threats from the Iranian delegation to walk out of talks in Switzerland citing a barrage of President Donald Trump’s social media posts as a concern.
While meeting with JD Vance, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff, the Iranian negotiators were fed up with the President’s incessant posting about the ongoing talks.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf led Iran’s negotiating team. Qatari and Pakistani officials attended as mediators between the US and Iran.
‘They did threaten to walk out, or at least there was social media threats that they would walk out,’ Vance said, adding, ‘They didn’t walk out.’
Defending his principal’s remarks, he said, ‘What we told the Iranians yesterday is when you guys engage in what us millennials might call “trash talk,” you can’t expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,’ Vance said he relayed to the Iranians.
Trump fired off several posts dealing with the specifics of the memorandum of understanding that the two sides have signed off on, making clear his position on the most controversial portions of the agreement as talks were ongoing.
‘There will be no tolls in the Hormuz Strait for 60 days during the Cease Fire Period, and there will be no tolls after the 60 day period has expired, unless they are imposed by and for the United States of America,’ Trump wrote matter-of-factly on Saturday.
