JD Vance Uses Painfully Awkward Analogy To Explain Iran Proposal

Vice President JD Vance provided a wild analogy on Wednesday involving his wife, Usha Vance, and skydiving, to describe his feelings about a key part of Iran’s 10-point proposal to end the ongoing war.

Speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport as he departed from Hungary, Vance was asked: “Do you see a scenario in which the administration may be willing to agree to allow Iran to continue enriching uranium for civilian nuclear purposes?”

Both the Trump administration and Israel have repeatedly cited the crippling of Iran’s nuclear program as a primary goal of the conflict.

“What the president has said is that we don’t want Iran to have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon,” Vance said. “The president has also said that we don’t want Iran enriching towards a nuclear weapon and we want Iran to give up the nuclear fuel. Those are going to be our demands during the negotiation.”

In a statement posted on social media on Wednesday, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, claimed the US and Israel had already violated portions of the two-week ceasefire agreement.

“As the President of the United States has clearly stated in his Truth, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s 10-Point Proposal is a ‘workable basis on which to negotiate’ and the main framework for these talks. However, 3 clauses of this proposal have been violated so far,” Ghalibaf wrote.

Vance took issue with one part of Ghalibaf’s statement, specifically the “denial of Iran’s right to enrichment, which was included in sixth clause of the framework.” To explain why, he offered this analogy:

“I thought to myself, you know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement that she’s not going to do that because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane,” Vance said. “We don’t really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do. We concern ourselves with what they actually do.”

Users on social media were quick to call out the bizarre nature of Vance’s analogy: