US President Donald Trump has said that Vice President JD Vance will no longer handle negotiations with Iran, and that Washington does not need a deal with Tehran. The statements, reported from the Italian news outlet TGCOM24, mark a sharp shift in the American approach to the talks that had been under way for months.
According to the reporting, Vance had been involved in a series of delegations over several months before being removed from the Iran file. The change was reported alongside new United States strikes on bases linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC. The notes available for this story do not confirm the dates, locations or casualties of those strikes, and the details of the strikes and of the talks remain thin in the reporting.
Trump also said he would resume strikes on Tehran if necessary, and asserted that Iran's regime is collapsing. These are the president's own claims, and the material available does not provide independent confirmation of the state of the Iranian government. Nor does it show whether any formal negotiating channel remains open or whether talks are expected to resume.
For readers in India, the development matters for the wider Gulf and West Asian situation, which bears on energy markets, shipping routes and the large Indian diaspora working in the region. The reporting available does not indicate any direct effect on India, and the situation is being followed closely as more details emerge.
Source: tgcom24.mediaset.it
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