⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Washington would require Iran to make a “meaningful” reduction in nuclear-enrichment capacity as a condition for ending the war, rejecting assurances of future reductions in favor of concrete concessions: “We're not going to trade words for actions,” while saying the U.S. remained open to an agreement; he argued that if Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, there is no justification for producing 60% enriched fuel and said demonstrating that commitment requires ending such production. — Reuters

➡️ Vance said Washington was negotiating with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi but remained uncertain over their authority within Iran’s power structure: “it's not totally clear how their country makes decisions.” President Donald Trump similarly said Tuesday that his “biggest problem” was that no one knows who is running Iran. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei previously rejected that characterization, saying U.S. officials know their Iranian counterparts and how Iran’s decision-making system works, and attributing the issue instead to “the contradictory positions and mixed messaging from US officials.”

➡️ Separately, Vance said he had personally spoken with field commanders to assess battlefield conditions and dismissed concerns over critical munitions shortages; he said Iranian troops could periodically strike commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz but were largely unable to prevent energy exports through the waterway.

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