🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 U.S. Vicepresident, J.D. Vance tells Iran it must "make a meaningful reduction" of its uranium enrichment capability for the U.S. to maybe end the war

Vance has tried to assert himself as the U.S' leading negotiator with Iran but, according to him, the biggest problem he encountered is uncertainty in who makes decisions in Tehran

Vance said the US was in talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. But ​it was unclear how much authority they wield within Iran's power structure, he said, after joint US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"One ​of the things we picked up on is it's not totally clear how their country makes decisions," Vance said. Separately, Trump said on Tuesday his "biggest problem" is no one knows who is running Iran.

Iran's ‌Foreign Ministry ⁠spokesman said on Sunday that US officials are well aware of who their Iranian counterparts are and how Iran's decision-making system works.

"The problem is actually the opposite: it lies in the contradictory positions and mixed messaging from US officials," Esmaeil Baghaei told a weekly press conference.

Iranian president Pezeshkian and foreign minister Araqchi are well known moderates/reformists, a camp within the Iranian political spectrum infamous for tolerating every insult and humiliation coming from Washington in exchange for American/Western European acknowledgement and the perfidy with which the US directed negotiations with Iran only for the U.S. to still attack Tehran has permanently ruined any political support the reformists/moderates may have had from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Araqchi was hit the other day with a motion to have him dismissed from the Iranian government for "unauthorized meetings" with U.S. officials on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York City. The one that authorizes these meetings is the Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei and the IRGC.

📝: Trump and Vance "don't know" who makes decision in Iran because those people do not want to talk to them and only want one thing: revenge.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/interview-us-vice-president-vance-says-iran-must-cut-enrichment-end-war-2026-10-06/