WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (TodayViralUSA) — President Donald Trump said Thursday the United States no longer needs a deal to end the war with Iran and ordered Vice President JD Vance, who had been leading efforts to restart talks with Tehran, to turn his attention to domestic issues instead.
In a post on his social media site, Trump said Vance would focus his “complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.”
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump wrote. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
Vance sidelined
The move removes Vance from the biggest foreign policy challenge of his vice presidency. He led a U.S. delegation to Islamabad in April to negotiate an end to the war, and Axios reported last week that he had been speaking almost daily with Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, and other mediators. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff have also been involved in the diplomacy.
Vance had publicly distanced himself from the conflict and, after Republicans’ heavy losses in last week’s midterm elections, blamed it for the defeat. “The reason we lost is the war,” he wrote on X.
A stalemate made official
The war began in February with joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, which responded by closing the Strait of Hormuz and sending fuel prices sharply higher worldwide. The U.S. has since kept a blockade on Iranian ports and has largely reopened the strait to shipping, but neither side has launched major strikes in months, The Guardian reported.
Trump’s declaration effectively formalizes that standoff. Last week he said the war was “effectively over,” and after meeting Qatar’s prime minister at the White House he said further military action did not “seem to be a very necessary thing,” adding: “we’re locked and loaded, ready to go for any reason.” He said Gulf leaders had urged him not to resume the fighting.
Trump has acknowledged that the war drove up fuel prices but has continued to defend it as necessary to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Sources & Credits
- The Guardian: Trump says no deal needed on Iran war and orders Vance to focus on domestic issues
- The Washington Post: Trump says no deal needed with Iran, closes down Vance negotiations
- Associated Press: Trump bluntly tells JD Vance to shift focus from Iran to targeting ‘corruption and crime’ at home
- NBC News: Trump says the U.S. doesn’t ‘need’ a deal with Iran
- Politico: Trump pulls Vance off Iran
Image: Official vice presidential portrait of JD Vance (March 2026) by Emily J. Higgins, The White House, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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