JD Vance calls Iran ceasefire a 'fragile truce' and says Trump is 'impatient to make progress'

Vice President JD Vance has said the Iran ceasefire is a “fragile truce.”

The ceasefire, announced Tuesday, halted attacks on the country for two weeks and triggered a relief rally in global markets.

Speaking in Hungary, Vance said Wednesday that Iran’s foreign minister had responded well to the ceasefire but others in the country had been “lying” about the agreement.

“This is why I say this is a fragile truce,” he said. “You have people who clearly want to come to the negotiating table and work with us to find a good deal, and then you have people who are lying about even the fragile truce that we’ve already struck.”

Vance, who has been campaigning for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s re-election, said the U.S. had “clear military, diplomatic and, maybe most importantly, we have extraordinary economic leverage” over Iran.