JD Vance leads desperate all night scramble for Iran peace deal as Trump sets deadline and warns: ‘I’ll blow up everything’
JD Vance led a frantic last-minute push Sunday night to secure a peace deal with Iranian leaders after Donald Trump threatened to rain ‘hell’ down on Tehran ahead of his looming deadline.
The late night negotiations produced a Pakistan-brokered peace plan calling for an immediate ceasefire, followed by further talks within a 15 to 20 day window, according to Reuters.
Trump threatened to ‘blow up everything’ in Iran, including civilian infrastructure, if the Islamic regime failed to strike a deal by Tuesday at 8pm ET.
But the plan negotiated is unlikely to immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz and has yet to receive the President’s approval, per a White House official.
Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, coordinated the proposed peace plan through backchannel talks with Vance and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, while Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi represented Tehran’s interests.
The President will give an address from the White House to the public about the rescue of a F-15 weapons officer in the mountains of Iran over the weekend.
Trump’s Tuesday deadline sparked cautious volatility in early trading, with oil prices dipping slightly but still holding well above $100 per barrel. The national average for gas has surged to around $4.10 a gallon, up more than a dollar since the start of the conflict.
