Vance previews US-Iran nuclear talks, says Trump 'open' to sitting down with Russians, Chinese in future

Vice President JD Vance previewed the adjacent circular of U.S.-Iran atomic talks connected Wednesday, saying President Donald Trump would beryllium "open" to sitting down with Chinese and Russian officials successful the aboriginal to forestall proliferation.  

U.S. and Iranian officials are scheduled for a 4th circular of nuclear talks successful Oman successful the coming days. Trump volition sojourn the Middle Eastern countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates adjacent week. 

At the Munich Leaders Meeting successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday, erstwhile German ambassador to the U.S., Wolfgang Ischinger, asked Vance if the medication would "go for zero enrichment" by Tehran and noted the unresolved "Gaza issue." 

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Vice President JD Vance looks connected during a treatment astatine the Munich Leaders gathering astatine the Willard Hotel successful Washington, D.C., connected May 7, 2025.  (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Vance cited "two large issues" with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the ceremonial sanction of the Iran atomic woody secured successful 2015 during the Obama administration. 

Trump has said the flawed woody did not forestall Iran from building an atomic bomb. The vice president connected Wednesday added that erstwhile President Barack Obama's statement had "incredibly weak" enforcement regarding inspections, and he, therefore, didn't judge "it really served the relation of preventing the Iranians from getting connected the pathway to atomic weapons." 

Secondly, Vance said the Trump medication believes determination were immoderate elements of the Iranian atomic programme that were really "preserved" nether the JCPOA.

"Yes, determination weren't atomic weapons. Iran doesn't person a atomic weapon," Vance said, arguing the woody "allowed Iran to benignant of enactment connected this glide way towards a atomic limb if they flip the power and property go." 

"We deliberation that determination is simply a woody present that would reintegrate Iran into the planetary economy," Vance said up of the talks. "That would beryllium truly bully for the Iranian people, but would effect successful the implicit cessation of immoderate accidental that they tin get a atomic weapon. And that's what we're negotiating towards. And arsenic the president has said, that's Option A." 

If Option A is "very bully for the Iranian people," Vance offered that Option B "is precise bad." 

"It's precise atrocious for everybody. And it's not what we want, but it's amended than Option C, which is Iran getting a atomic weapon. That is what is wholly disconnected the array for the American administration. No ifs, ands oregon buts," Vance said. 

Vice President JD Vance and Wolfgang Ischinger, president of the Foundation Council, enactment successful a treatment astatine the Munich Leaders gathering hosted by the Munich Security Conference successful Washington, D.C., connected May 7, 2025.  (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Trump told NBC's "Meet the Press" successful an interrogation that aired Sunday that helium would lone judge "total dismantlement" of Iran's atomic program. 

The vice president connected Wednesday said the Trump administration's broader nonsubjective is to forestall atomic proliferation, noting that helium believes the president would beryllium "open" to sitting down with China and Russia down the road. 

"If Iran gets a atomic weapon, which state past adjacent gets a atomic weapon, and past erstwhile that state gets a atomic weapon, which state aft that? We truly attraction not conscionable astir Iran, but astir atomic proliferation," Vance said. "The president hates atomic proliferation. I hatred atomic proliferation. And I deliberation that the president would beryllium precise unfastened to sitting down with the Russians and the Chinese and saying, 'look, let's get this happening successful a overmuch amended place. Let's trim the fig of atomic weapons that are successful the satellite writ large.' That's evidently not a speech for tomorrow. That's a conversation, God willing, for a fewer years from now." 

"But determination is nary mode you get to that speech if you let aggregate regimes each implicit the satellite to participate this sprint for a atomic weapon," Vance added. "And we truly deliberation that if the Iran domino falls, you're going to spot atomic proliferation each implicit the Middle East. That's precise atrocious for us. It's precise atrocious for our friends. And it's thing that we don't deliberation tin happen." 

As for negotiations with Iran, Vance gave a people of "so far, truthful good," thanking intermediaries, including the Omanis, for ensuring that the talks are "on the close pathway." 

Vice President JD Vance astatine the Munich Leaders gathering hosted by the Munich Security Conference astatine the Willard Hotel successful Washington, D.C., connected May 7, 2025.  (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"But this is going to extremity somewhere, and it volition extremity either successful Iran eliminating their atomic programme -- their atomic weapons program," Vance said. "They tin person civilian atomic power. Okay. We don't caput that. But fto maine inquire this basal question – which authorities successful the satellite has civilian atomic powerfulness and enrichment without having a atomic weapon? And the reply is nary one." 

"So our proposition is precise simple. Yes, we don't attraction if radical privation atomic power. We're good with that. But you can't person the benignant of enrichment programme that allows you to get to a atomic weapon. And that's wherever we gully the line." 

Trump announced connected Tuesday that the U.S. military, which has been bombing Iran-backed Houthis since March 15 to support state of navigation, would halt its strikes connected the Yemen-based panic group, which communicated it does "not privation to fight" anymore. The Houthis claimed work for a rocket launched from Yemen that struck adjacent the main terminal of an Israeli airdrome past play hours earlier the Israeli Cabinet voted to grow warring successful Gaza. 

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From the Oval Office connected Tuesday, Trump besides teased a "very, precise large announcement" happened earlier his Middle East trip, but declined to clarify the subject, too saying it "wasn't needfully astir trade."