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Trump Trots JD Vance Out in Front of News Cameras and Makes Him Take the Fall for ‘Bad News’ on Iran Talks

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Apr 12, 2026
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Vice President JD Vance walked out of a high-stakes diplomatic meeting halfway across the world and delivered what he himself framed as “bad news.” But the real story isn’t just that talks with Iran collapsed, it’s who’s being positioned to own that failure.

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If you strip away the diplomatic language and the staging, what unfolded in Islamabad looks less like a routine breakdown in negotiations and more like a carefully choreographed political maneuver — one that places Vance squarely at the center of a mess that may not have been his to begin with.

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