{"id":25837,"date":"2025-06-22T19:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=25837"},"modified":"2025-06-22T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:50:38","slug":"us-is-not-at-war-with-iran-vice-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=25837","title":{"rendered":"US is &#8222;not at war&#8220; with Iran, vice president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/israel-iran-conflict-06-22-25-intl-hnk?t=1750610852009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmc7q4cz600023b6m2idw9xg9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Vice President JD Vance, in his first public comments since President Donald Trump authorized US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, emphasized that the US is \u201cnot at war\u201d with Iran as he laid out the president\u2019s decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmc7q641e00083b6mgfnalenl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\u201cWe\u2019re not at war with Iran. We\u2019re at war with Iran\u2019s nuclear program,\u201d Vance said in an interview with NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press with Kristen Welker,\u201d calling the strikes a \u201ctestament to the power of the American military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmc7q4cwn00013b6mvg35t304@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Vance added, \u201cOf course we trust our intelligence community, but we also trust our instincts. \u2026 The Iranians stopped negotiating in good faith \u2013 that was the real catalyst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmc7q7euc000d3b6ma6bemzof@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">The vice president also suggested that Trump arrived at the conclusion to authorize the strikes after issuing what he described as \u201cprivate ultimatums\u201d to Iran. He declined to detail those ultimatums.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Vice President JD Vance, in his first public comments since President Donald Trump authorized US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, emphasized that the US is \u201cnot at war\u201d with Iran as he laid out the president\u2019s decision-making process. \u201cWe\u2019re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=25837\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}