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Trial Balloon · Ep. 194: What Just Happened?

Vance Offers Iran Path to Normalize Ties with US

June 21, 2026 · 10:36 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Vice President JD Vance declared that the Trump administration’s goal is to “transform our relationship” with Iran during his opening remarks in Switzerland at Sunday’s meeting with top negotiators from Tehran,” the New York Post reports.

Said Vance: “What the president has asked us to do is turn over a new leaf to transform our relationship with the people of Iran, and to extend an outstretched hand that says to the people of Iran that if your leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability.”

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