Vice President JD Vance set to host high-stakes Iran meeting - MS NOW
Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to meet with Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi in Washington to discuss recent indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran aimed at avoiding conflict. The meeting follows recent diplomatic efforts, including discussions in Geneva involving Al Busaidi and U.S. officials, amid ongoing tensions and threats of military action against Iran by the Trump administration. Vance emphasized that the U.S. does not intend to engage in a prolonged war with Iran.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi is scheduled to meet with Vice President JD Vance and other U.S. officials in Washington on Friday for previously unreported talks in an effort to stave off war with Iran.
The scheduled meeting comes after special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, met on Thursday in Geneva with Al Busaidi, the mediator in the recent indirect Iran-U.S. talks, who facilitated the exchange of notes and information between the two sides.
The high-stakes meeting set to occur on Friday between Al Busaidi and Vance comes as Trump continues his threats of military force against Iran if the talks falter. Trump has not sought congressional authorization for a military strike, angering Democrats, as his administration prepares for direct conflict with Iran.
Vance insisted Thursday evening in an interview with The Washington Post that the United States was not about to enter into a years-long war with Iran — despite warnings from Pentagon officials and members of Congress that prolonged strikes could seriously jeopardize U.S. military readiness.
“The idea that we’re going to be in a Middle Eastern war for years with no end in sight — there is no chance that will happen,” Vance told The Post during an interview on board Air Force Two.
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