Iran Gives Trump an Ultimatum on JD Vance

https://www.thedailybeast.com/iran-gives-trump-a-negotiation-ultimatum-on-jd-vance-sidelining-steve-witkoff-and-jared-kushner/

47 Comments

  1. > Iran sees Vance as a more acceptable diplomatic figure than Witkoff and Kushner

    While true, a low bar to clear. It’s like your systolic blood pressure being higher than your diastolic one, save one odd situation.

  2. lastpassonright on

    Vance has clearly tried to distance himself from this excursion, quite funny the Iranians want him to show his face and own part of what’s happening.

  3. Gloomy-Cover7669 on

    I think they want to bait Vance into telling his true feelings about Trump and then leak them.

  4. KawasakiMetro on

    **Tour Guide**: The enemy surrounded the fort, and said that if the captain was sent out, the rest would be spared.
    **Bart**: What did they do?
    **Tour Guide**: They sent him out!
    **Bart**: Was he killed?
    **Tour Guide**: And how! That’s why they call it ‘Fort Sensible’.

  5. Flimsy_Category_9369 on

    I support air dropping Vance into the middle of Iran and just seeing what happens

  6. supergeometry on

    Missed opportunity to say that they only want to speak with JD Vance from the Epstein regime

  7. Independent-Cow-4070 on

    I dont fuck with Iran but their policy on the US during the war has been amazing to watch lol

  8. iran really said we’ll negotiate but not with those guys. wild that vance is somehow the more credible option here

  9. CountryFriedSteak78 on

    Masterstroke.

    Bring Vance and any progress immediately becomes his doing. Not Trump’s there’s no way his ego can take that.

  10. your_mileagemayvary on

    Makes sense

    Trump is determining whom he wants to negotiate with, why can’t Iran

    jJD would appear to be the next Republican running for president as Trump is too old and 2 termed.

    Best chance of negotiating with a president that lasts into the next 4-6 years is JDV.

  11. Damn, Im surprised. Here I thought Vance was just the biggest tool in America. Apparently hes also one of the biggest tools in existence.

  12. Nervous_Chemical7566 on

    Given Witkoff and Kushner were in on messing up the previous negotiations and idiots with their attitudes, who would want to deal with them anymore. A bit of humility on their way out is head games. In another article Leavitt’s response was it’s not up to them, Trump gets to decide who it will be. Some prime negotiating right there lol. It’s obvious Vance has tried to keep himself untainted with this war. Of all of them he does seem like the best of the worst, so makes sense to call for him, but surely the Iranians noticed this distancing as well and this is also some head games to unsettle the status quo. It’s like a high stakes soap opera and Iran is the seasoned actor while the US is still learning its lines.

  13. Makes me worried that Iran is going to say “replace Trump with yourself, and we’ll credit you as the one who restores peace and ends this war. Your midterm people will eat that up!”

  14. Personal_Comb_6745 on

    Just leave a fresh IKEA couch under a comically large box held up by a stick.

  15. ShadowCaster0476 on

    So they want an actual member of the government to negotiate with and not a couple of real estate moguls .

  16. SpiderSlitScrotums on

    It’s amazing how tolerant we have become of the fact that the main qualification of one of the lead negotiators to fix the world’s economy is that he fucks the President’s daughter.

  17. Please don’t play in to Trump’s moronic vocabulary, it’s not an excursion but an incursion; they are not windmills, they are wind turbines, etc.

  18. I wondered why Rubio and Vance weren’t in the negotiations but then I remembered the nightmare we are in

  19. SpeakingTheKingss on

    Alright, alright! We can trade JD Vance, we really didn’t want to, but you got us by the arm here. We don’t want anything in return, but we appreciate the gesture.

  20. “especially as Vance is, at his core, a skeptic of U.S. military action in the Middle East.”

    Vance has no core or principals.

  21. Trump would absolutely let Israel assassinate the new Iranian leaders with Vance in the room.

  22. would love to see a meeting between them. no way that kissass Vancs would talk to them the way he did to Zelensky

  23. Even if an adversary, it’s a breath of fresh air to see competent politicking.

    This will drive a wedge between Trump and Vance, because Vance has reportedly been privately strongly opposed to the war. And if they DO get their wish, they’ve got someone who may be more persuadable.

  24. I think their intention is to play on Trump’s ego and create conflict/drama in the administration.

  25. Despite the grave and deplorable context, it’s refreshing to see a political entity who doesn’t give a fuck about Orange Shit Stain and his mad barking. Vs the “civilized” world doing the polite political song and dance and most of all, the sad sate of American politics. All talk until it hits a deranged immovable object that doesn’t give a fuck about rhetorical bullshit.

  26. championchilli on

    JDV knows his electoral future is absolutely bbqed if he is associated with this conflict in a post trump world, well played by Iran to ruin his electoral future further, or make him cut an anti war deal and make him split with trump.

    Give your enemies dilemmas.

    The Iranians have been so underestimated in their cunning and strategic nous. They psychos too, but not stupid.