{"id":61013,"date":"2026-09-04T02:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61013"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:56:20","slug":"us-vice-president-jd-vance-declines-to-offer-timeline-for-end-of-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61013","title":{"rendered":"US Vice President JD Vance declines to offer timeline for end of Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United States Vice President JD Vance has declined to offer a prospective timeline for the end of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which remains a source of surging global energy prices and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/5\/1\/poll-finds-61-percent-of-americans-believe-attacking-iran-was-a-mistake\">unpopularity<\/a>\u00a0at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance sought to downplay the fallout from the war in a White House news briefing on Thursday. He even questioned how to refer to the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it a war. Right now, there is no active shooting,\u201d Vance said, before clarifying. \u201cI recognise there have been places where this has flared up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His remarks come after days of intense fire between the US and Iran. Still, Vance argued that major combat operations only lasted \u201cabout six weeks\u201d and that the US has succeeded in degrading Iran\u2019s defence production capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also sought to turn attention to&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/9\/3\/how-much-oil-is-going-through-hormuz-how-data-doesnt-match-us-claims\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a focal point of the war, accusing Iran of preventing the flow of traffic through the vital trade route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you ask, \u2018When will this end?\u2019, you\u2019re asking me a question like: When will the Iranians stop shooting at ships?\u201d Vance told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the reality is, I don\u2019t know the answer to that question. You\u2019d have to ask the Iranians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to the outbreak of war on February 28, traffic flowed freely through the strait. But after the US and Israel launched an initial volley of attacks that month, Iran closed the waterway to commercial vessels, in a blow to the global fossil fuel trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roughly a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and gas flowed through the Strait of Hormuz prior to the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: United States Vice President JD Vance has declined to offer a prospective timeline for the end of the US-Israeli war on Iran, which remains a source of surging global energy prices and\u00a0unpopularity\u00a0at home. Vance sought to downplay the fallout from the war in a White House news briefing on Thursday. He even questioned how to refer to the conflict. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t call it a war. Right now, there is no active shooting,\u201d Vance said, before clarifying. \u201cI recognise there have been places where this has flared up.\u201d His remarks come after days of intense fire between the US and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61015,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61013\/revisions\/61015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}