Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that he thinks negotiations with Iran to end the six-week war will be “positive,” while warning Tehran’s diplomatic team not to “play us.”
Vance spoke to reporters before boarding Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to fly to Pakistan for those talks, set to begin Saturday in Islamabad.
The sitdown comes as a two-week ceasefire that began Tuesday has been threatened by continued Israeli attacks in Lebanon, and by President Donald Trump’s frustration with Iran continuing to block most shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Strait is the world’s most vital shipping route for oil. Before the war, 20% of the world’s crude was shipped through that passage.
“We’re looking forward to the negotiation,” Vance said Friday. “I think it’s going to be positive.”
