“We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case,” said the U.S. vice president
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that Washington never indicated Lebanon would be included in the ceasefire with Iran, attributing Tehran’s claims to the contrary to a “legitimate misunderstanding” about the terms.
“I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn’t,” Vance told reporters on the tarmac in Budapest, Hungary. “There’s a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda, going on. I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding,” he said.
“We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case,” continued Vance, who is set to lead a U.S. delegation to Pakistan on Saturday for talks aimed at ending the war on the Islamic Republic.