{"id":44742,"date":"2026-04-08T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44742"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:05:59","slug":"jd-vance-calls-iran-cease-fire-a-fragile-truce-with-trump-impatient-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44742","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance calls Iran cease-fire a &#8216;fragile truce&#8217; with Trump &#8216;impatient&#8217; to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance conceded Wednesday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/world-news\/trump-declares-iran-cease-fire-deal-could-lead-to-golden-age-of-the-middle-east-boasts-big-money-will-be-made\/\">two-week cease-fire<\/a>\u00a0is a \u201cfragile truce\u201d because of \u201clying\u201d Iranian leaders\u00a0\u2014 with President Trump \u201cimpatient\u201d to make a concrete deal to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, who was speaking at an event in Hungary, insisted a deal was possible if <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/world-news\/trump-announces-two-week-double-sided-ceasefire-hours-before-iran-deadline-hints-that-deal-is-close-to-finalized\/\">Iran negotiated sincerely<\/a> and noted Trump had already instructed his team to engage the Iranians in \u201cgood faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s told us to come to the negotiating table. But if the Iranians don\u2019t do the exact same thing, they\u2019re going to find out that the president of the United States is not one to mess around,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire with Iran is \u201cfragile.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s impatient. He\u2019s impatient to make progress.\u00a0He has\u00a0told\u00a0us to negotiate in good faith, and\u00a0I\u00a0think\u00a0if they\u00a0negotiate in good faith, we will be able to\u00a0find\u00a0a deal.\u00a0But\u00a0that\u2019s a big if, and ultimately, it\u2019s up to the Iranians how they negotiate.\u00a0I hope they make the right decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance cautioned\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/world-news\/trump-announces-two-week-double-sided-ceasefire-hours-before-iran-deadline-hints-that-deal-is-close-to-finalized\/\">deal\u00a0that the\u00a0US struck with Iran<\/a> was being misrepresented within the Islamic Republic, describing it as a \u201cfragile truce.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou have people who are lying about even the fragile truce that we\u2019ve already struck,\u201d Vance said of\u00a0the way\u00a0talks were being twisted in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t elaborate further beyond saying the agreement included a cease-fire, plans to negotiate\u00a0and\u00a0the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Two men play Backgammon in a park in Tehran on Wednesday, April 8, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He\u00a0cautioned, too,\u00a0that some parts of the Iranian system were approaching the talks constructively, but others were not.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Trump revealed late Tuesday that the US and Iran have agreed to a two-week\u00a0cease-fire\u00a0brokered by Pakistan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Iranians wave their flag in Tehran on April 8, 2026 after the cease-fire deal is reached.  <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The deal was reached just two hours before a deadline he had set for Iran to open the blockaded Strait of \u200cHormuz or face the destruction of its \u201cwhole civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vance said the US was prepared to use \u201cextraordinary economic leverage\u201d to reach the deal, but Trump had instructed his negotiating team \u201cnot to use those tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/us-news\/jd-vance-calls-iran-cease-fire-a-fragile-truce-with-trump-impatient-to-end-war\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance conceded Wednesday that the two-week cease-fire\u00a0is a \u201cfragile truce\u201d because of \u201clying\u201d Iranian leaders\u00a0\u2014 with President Trump \u201cimpatient\u201d to make a concrete&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}