By EFE
The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, expressed this Tuesday his hope that Iran will send in the next few hours “the correct answer” before defeating American President Donald Trump’s ultimatum tonight.
“We feel confident that we can get a response, whether positive or negative; Let’s get an answer from the Iranians for 8:00 p.m. (00:00 GMT). I hope they give the correct answer,” the president said at a press conference in Budapest with the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.
“Because what really We want a world where oil and gas flow freelywhere people can afford to heat and cool their homes, where people can afford to travel to work,” explained Vance, visiting Hungary to support Orbán’s campaign ahead of the legislative elections this Sunday in the Central European country.
“That’s not going to happen if the Iranians engage in acts of economic terrorism. So you have to know: we have tools in our briefcase that until now we have decided not to use. “The president of the United States can decide to use them and will decide to use them if the Iranians do not change their behavior,” the vice president warned.
On the other hand, he assured that the recent US attacks against the Iranian oil island of Kharg “they do not constitute a change in strategy” regarding his ultimatum, which remains in force until 8:00 p.m. Washington time.
“(Trump) said it very clearly: We are not going to attack energy and infrastructure targets until the Iranians present a proposal that we can support or they do not present it, but He has given them until Tuesday at 8:00 p.m.“Vance assured.
These statements occurred while Trump assured in a message on his social network ‘Truth Social’ that “Tonight an entire civilization will die, never to return”in reference to Iran.
“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” added the US president.
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