Trump sidelines Vance from Iran talks, says no need to negotiate

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Trump sidelines Vance from Iran talks, says no need to negotiate Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 11/12/2026 - 19:06 Vance was trying to meet senior Iranian officials for peace…

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US is no longer interested in negotiations with Iran, as he appeared to sideline his own vice president, JD Vance, who has tried to position himself as a mediator in the war.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed…We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” Trump wrote on social media, referring to the Hormuz waterway.

Trump’s statement is a flip-flop of his comments earlier this week saying that there was “momentum” for a political settlement with Iran and that negotiations were ongoing.

He appeared to relegate Vance to handling a new domestic file of what he called the “corrupt disasters” of Democrat-run cities and states.

“I have asked the Vice President to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place,” Trump wrote.

Vance had put himself at the centre of efforts to revive a political settlement with Iran and has been opining on US foreign policy in the Middle East since Democrats won a historic midterm election landslide on 3 November.

"The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night," Vance wrote on X, also blaming the Republican Party’s association with Israel for its poor performance in the elections.

Middle East Eye was the first to report, citing Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin at a press briefing, that Qatar would host a meeting between Vance and Iranian national security official Mohsen Rezaei.

Iran officially denied that talks were scheduled, but behind the scenes, the US appeared to be pushing for a meeting.

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