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Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) said that leaders in Tehran “want to wipe our civilization off the map,” comments that follow recent U.S.-Iran peace talks.
“I hope that Vice President Vance and [Jared] Kushner and [Steve] Witkoff are successful in convincing Iran to be a normal country and to open their minds and stop trying to murder their neighbors and destroy the world, but the reality is this is a murderous regime that doesn’t want a deal,” Sheehy said Monday on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
“They don’t want $6 gasoline, they don’t want the straits to be open. They want you and your family and all of us to be killed. They want to wipe our civilization off the map. That’s their national motto,” he added.
Vice President Vance praised what he said was major progress amid direct negotiations featuring Trump administration officials and their Iranian counterparts at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland on Sunday.
“Yesterday was a very, very good day. We made a lot of good progress. We did exactly what we wanted to do,” Vance said Monday.
The vice president said “a very good foundation” had been made for a successful and final deal.
Vance referenced four points accomplished amid the talks, including the creation of mechanisms to rid the Strait of Hormuz of mines and for deconfliction for the regional ceasefire.
The war against Iran, which began nearly four months ago, has become a political hurdle for the Trump administration ahead of this year’s midterms, with Americans disapproving of the conflict and expressing concern about gas prices that have risen during the fighting in recent polling.
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