Vice President JD Vance said in a social media post on Tuesday that President Donald Trump may “take further action to end Iranian enrichment.”
In his appeal to MAGA critics of a possible intervention, Vance wrote, “I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue.”
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Vance’s defense of intervention came one day after Tucker Carlson posted an interview with Steve Bannon, in which they criticized America’s involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Carlson said the MAGA coalition “kind of feels like it’s being blown up over this war in Iran.”
These criticisms from the Right prompted Vance’s post on Tuesday. Vance said, “POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
The post continued by highlighting Iran’s enrichment of uranium, pointing to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s recent report that Iran was violating its nuclear nonproliferation obligations.
Responding to the discourse within the MAGA movement over a possible intervention in Iran, Vance said, “I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I’ve yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations.”
Vance has been critical of American interventionism in the past. He called the premise of the Iraq War “a lie” and was a skeptic of aid to Ukraine while serving in the Senate. As vice president, Vance said he doesn’t “really care what happens to Ukraine, one way or the other.”
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Vance concluded his post by saying about Trump, “I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people’s goals.”
After meeting with Republican senators, Vance expanded on his X post. He said, “Part of safety … is ensuring that the worst people in the world don’t have a nuclear bomb. And part of ensuring that they don’t have a nuclear bomb is ensuring they don’t have the enrichment capacity to get there.”