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Vance says Iran's negotiating position is still unclear

By Kevin Liptak

Vice President JD Vance said he continues to see fractures within Iran’s leadership and that Tehran’s negotiating position is unclear as the Trump administration works toward a deal to end the war.

“The Iranians aren’t themselves quite clear in what direction they want to go to, they also are just a fractured country,” Vance told reporters at the White House.

“You have the leadership of the country, there’s the supreme leader, and there are a lot of officials below the supreme leader that [have] some influence in negotiation. It’s not sometimes totally clear what the negotiating position of the team is,” he continued.

Vance said it wasn’t clear whether the divisions were the product of bad communication or bad faith, but that the result was a muddled process.

“I will say with confidence it’s sometimes hard to figure out exactly what it is that the Iranians want to accomplish out of the negotiation,” he said.