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Vance stresses Trump wants ‘grand bargain’ with Iran, not ‘a small deal’
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US Vice President JD Vance speaks at a Turning Point USA tour stop at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
Addressing a Turning Point USA event in Georgia, US Vice President JD Vance discusses the 20-plus hours of negotiations with Iran in which he lead the US delegation. He says Trump “doesn’t want to make, like, a small deal. He wants to make the grand bargain.”
“That’s the trade that he’s offering,” Vance says of Trump, who is telling Iran that “if you guys commit to not having a nuclear weapon, we are going to make Iran thrive.”
“We’re going to make it economically prosperous, and we’re going to invite the Iranian people into the world economy in a way they haven’t been in my entire life,” the vice president says.
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