{"id":15935,"date":"2026-06-18T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15935"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:01:45","slug":"vance-skeptical-of-foreign-wars-becomes-the-face-of-trumps-tentative-deal-to-end-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15935","title":{"rendered":"Vance, skeptical of foreign wars, becomes the face of Trump\u2019s tentative deal to end war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE and SEUNG MIN KIM<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 JD Vance was supposed to be spending the week promoting his new book, the kind of event a potential presidential candidate like the vice president typically uses to speak to a wide audience about his life and values ahead of a campaign.<\/p>\n

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Instead, the rollout of Vance\u2019s second book, \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,\u201d has been largely crowded out by something else he\u2019s put his name on: the tentative deal to end the Iran war.<\/p>\n

The Republican vice president has embraced the role of chief defender of the agreement he and President Donald Trump signed with Tehran, giving a series of interviews touting the memorandum of understanding as a success and releasing a video championing it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a striking emergence for a politician who was known for his skepticism of foreign military interventions and who seemed reluctant to speak on the conflict when Trump launched it in late February.<\/p>\n

The vice president is poised to yoke himself further to the conflict\u2019s outcome on Friday, when he\u2019s expected to travel to Switzerland to kick off a new phase of negotiations with Iran. He was originally expected to attend a formal signing ceremony for the deal, but Trump formally signed it on Wednesday instead.<\/p>\n

Vance becoming a hype man for the agreement seems to be an all-in gamble that, should he decide to seek the White House in 2028, voters will reward him for being the face of ending an unpopular conflict.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also setting Vance up as the presumptive fall-guy should the deal with Iran falter.<\/p>\n

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Trump joked about such a possibility on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it works out, I\u2019m going to take the credit. If it doesn\u2019t work out, I\u2019m blaming JD,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n