{"id":45225,"date":"2026-04-09T00:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45225"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:17:34","slug":"it-would-be-dumb-of-iran-to-end-negotiations-over-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45225","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be &#8216;Dumb&#8217; of Iran to End Negotiations over Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span id=\"more-32549671\"\/>Vice President JD Vance told reporters Wednesday that Lebanon was never part of the United States\u2019 ceasefire with Iran, and it would be dumb of Iran to let negotiations disintegrate over Israeli strikes on Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Vance made the comments as he was departing Hungary for the United States.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2041965489312719330\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2041965489312719330\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually think\u2014and there\u2019s a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda going on\u2014I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding,\u201d Vance said. \u201cI think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn\u2019t. We never made that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never indicated that was going to be the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America\u2019s allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Vance said that Israel, as he understands it, has\u00a0\u201coffered\u2026 frankly to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful; that\u2019s not because that is part of the ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cI think that\u2019s the Israelis trying to set us up for success, and we\u2019ll, of course, see how that unfolds in the next few days,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>He told reporters it would be unwise for Iran to end the ceasefire because of Israel\u2019s strikes on Lebanon:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But look, if I Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart, in a conflict where they were getting hammered, over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that\u2019s ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that\u2019s their choice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His remarks echo those of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said Wednesday that Lebanon is not included in the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2041934665460879493\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/2041934665460879493\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/08\/vance-it-would-be-dumb-iran-end-negotiations-over-lebanon-which-was-never-part-ceasefire\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President JD Vance told reporters Wednesday that Lebanon was never part of the United States\u2019 ceasefire with Iran, and it would be dumb of Iran&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225","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=45225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}