JD Vance tells Bill Maher how ‘America wins’ with or without Iran deal
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JD Vance tells Bill Maher how ‘America wins’ with or without Iran deal
By Victor Nava and Nicholas McEntyre Published June 27, 2026 Updated June 27, 2026, 1:56 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleVice President JD Vance argued during an interview with Bill Maher Friday that “America wins” even if Iran refuses to sign a deal that would end the war.
“If we don’t make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed, they’re still much weaker as a country,” Vance said during his appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“So my attitude is America wins either way,” he added.
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Vance noted that President Trump tasked US negotiators with “something that frankly, nobody in 47 years of dealing with the Iranians has done, which is offer them an opportunity to fundamentally transform how they behave with the West.”
“If they’re willing to change, we’re willing to change, too,” the vice president said, adding, “If they’re not willing to change, we still fundamentally have all the cards.
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“I think it’s a good place for us to be.”
The 41-year-old veep jetted off to Switzerland last weekend for high-stakes meetings with Iranian representatives mediated by Pakistani and Qatari officials.
During his face-to-face remarks with Tehran’s top negotiators last Sunday, Vance declared the Trump administration’s goal was to “transform our relationship” with Iran.
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“What the president has asked us to do is turn over a new leaf to transform our relationship with the people of Iran, and to extend an outstretched hand that says to the people of Iran that if your leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability,” Vance said.
“If they are willing to give up nuclear weapons ambitions for the long term, then the United States is willing to fundamentally transform our relationship with that country,” he went on. “That is certainly our goal.”
Vance’s trip to the luxurious Buergenstock Resort Lake Lucerne, near Stansstad, Switzerland, was a part of the first round of talks with Iran under the mutually agreed memorandum of understanding.
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The MOU between President Trump and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian was meant to stop fighting and kick off 60 days of talks for a grand deal to end Tehran’s nuclear program.
On Friday, hours before Vance’s sit-down with Maher, Trump claimed Iran had violated the cease-fire after an Iranian drone struck Singaporean-flagged ship M/V Ever Lovely.
The attack came after Iran warned vessels to ignore a US-approved shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz, along the Omani coast, instead hoping for the ships to use a passage of their choosing.
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Following the “foolish violation,” US forces conducted military strikes in Iran, targeting Iranian drone storage facilities and coastal radar sites.
On Saturday, Iran claimed it had struck targets linked to the US in response to Friday’s strikes but didn’t identify the targets, according to Reuters.
Vance warned Iran that violent acts during the cease-fire will be met with force
“Iran signed a cease-fire agreement. We have honored it. If they have disagreements about how the MOU is being applied, they can pick up the phone,” he wrote on X. “But violence will be met with violence.”
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Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
