Vice President JD Vance: “Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, cannot have a nuclear weapon."

Vice President JD Vance on X the Vice President’s official account2026-10-18

Vice President JD Vance: “Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, cannot have a nuclear weapon."

Posted on X 2026-10-18 by @VP · View on X →

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Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world cannot have a nuclear weapon That would be a massive thing that they could threaten That's also potentially something they could use to kill millions of innocent civilians So Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon Now, have we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program? The answer is yes So what are we doing now? There are two things that we're trying to accomplish Number one ensure the Iranians make a long-term but also verifiable commitment that they're not going to rebuild right? You have to wonder not over the administration of Donald Trump because this stuff Excuse me it takes a while but five years from now could the Iranians rebuild that nuclear arsenal? Could they try to rebuild that enrichment capacity? So that's number one But then number two is when we destroyed their nuclear program the Iranians responded by terrorizing commercial shipping And that's, of course, the big reason why or one of the big reasons I should say why energy prices have gone up And so what we have to do is simultaneously make sure that we get the final firm commitment from the Iranians that they're not going to rebuild their nuclear program but we also have to ensure that we don't have a worldwide energy crisis

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Vice President JD Vance: “Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, cannot have a nuclear weapon."

Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world cannot have a nuclear weapon That would be a massive thing that they could threaten That's also potentially something they could use to kill millions of innocent civilians So Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon Now, have we destroyed the Iranian nuclear program? The answer is yes So what are we doing now? There are two things that we're trying to accomplish Number one ensure the Iranians make a long-term but also verifiable commitment that they're not going to rebuild right? You have to wonder not over the administration of Donald Trump because this stuff Excuse me it takes a while but five years from now could the Iranians rebuild that nuclear arsenal? Could they try to rebuild that enrichment capacity? So that's number one But then number two is when we destroyed their nuclear program the Iranians responded by terrorizing commercial shipping And that's, of course, the big reason why or one of the big reasons I should say why energy prices have gone up And so what we have to do is simultaneously make sure that we get the final firm commitment from the Iranians that they're not going to rebuild their nuclear program but we also have to ensure that we don't have a worldwide energy crisis

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