{"id":64874,"date":"2026-04-13T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:34:15","slug":"jd-vance-mocked-over-weekend-of-failures-in-iran-and-hungary-on-a-historic-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64874\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance mocked over weekend of failures in Iran and Hungary: \u2018On a historic roll\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vice President JD Vance<\/a> is being roundly mocked after a disastrous weekend in which he presided over unsuccessful peace talks with Iran<\/a> and saw his candidate in Hungary<\/a>\u2019s election, Viktor Orban, driven from office<\/a> after 16 years in power.<\/p>\n

Vance was in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday for 21 hours of talks between U.S. and Iranian negotiators on ending the devastating conflict in the Middle East, which finally concluded without agreement.<\/p>\n

In a press conference afterwards, the VP said the U.S. was not satisfied that Iran<\/a> would abandon its long-held ambition to develop a nuclear weapon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ViceVice President JD Vance announces the failure of peace talks with Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday (Reuters)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe simple question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now, but for the long term,\u201d Vance said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t seen that yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

He insisted the stalemate was \u201cbad news for Iran, much more than it\u2019s bad news for the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tehran said \u201ctwo important issues\u201d went unresolved: its nuclear program and control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil passes. <\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> reacted with frustration to the failure of the talks and has since announced the U.S. Navy will \u201cblockade\u201d the strait.<\/p>\n

Then, on Sunday, Hungary\u2019s authoritarian president lost his re-election bid to challenger Peter Magyar<\/a>, just days after Vance had flown into Budapest to personally endorse<\/a> the former.<\/p>\n

\"VanceVance and the now-outgoing Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban at an election rally in Budapest last Tuesday (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cJD Vance is on a historic roll,\u201d sneered<\/a> anti-MAGA pundit Ron Filipkowski, running through some of the VP\u2019s recent foreign policy misadventures.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe campaigns for AfD in Germany \u2013 they lose. Invited the Pope to come to U.S. for Trump\u2019s big event \u2013 Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran \u2013 fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orban \u2013 who gets smoked.\u201d<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined in the gloating<\/a> by saying: \u201cJD Vance proves he\u2019s a lightweight twice in 48 hours. Congratulations to the people of Hungary \u2013 democracy, free press and human rights win today. There is hope.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sarah Longwell, The Bulwark\u2019s founder, said<\/a> the weekend had been \u201cpretty embarrassing all around for JD Vance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republicans Against Trump account on X (Twitter) pointed out that Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> spent his Saturday night watching a UFC bout in Miami with Trump<\/a>, leaving it to Vance to take the fall for the outcome in Islamabad, commenting<\/a>: \u201cAn absolute clown show running the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attending a UFC fight with Dana White at the Kaseya Center in Miami Saturday, leaving Vance to handle the Iran talks in Pakistan (Getty)<\/p>\n

The New York Times reported<\/a> last week that Vance was one of the cabinet members who had spoken out against Operation Epic Fury before its commencement on February 28 but had pledged his support to Trump, even as he reiterated his opinion that the war was a bad idea that would lead to mass casualties and regional chaos.<\/p>\n

Despite not believing in the conflict, Vance was sent out by Trump to speak for him, with the president joking<\/a> at the White House last week: \u201cIf [a deal] doesn\u2019t happen, I\u2019m blaming JD Vance. And if it does happen. I\u2019m taking full credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before arriving in Pakistan, Vance had been in Hungary attempting to bolster Orban\u2019s flagging campaign, championing the strongman leader \u2013 who is also backed by Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia \u2013 and attacking \u201cbureaucrats in Brussels\u201d for opposing his rule.<\/p>\n

But Hungarians have evidently grown tired of Orban\u2019s experiment in \u201cilliberal democracy,\u201d which has seen him hailed as a hero of Christian nationalism in the U.S. while restricting the judiciary, muzzling the free press, and curtailing LGBTQ+ rights at home. <\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s intervention clearly did not help Orban\u2019s cause \u2013 and may even have helped to seal his fate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16502,13360,14150,5084,24388,2037,34,1093,201,24387,81,5485,256,23379,12444],"class_list":{"0":"post-64874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-budapest","9":"tag-color-image","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-horizontal","12":"tag-hungarian-prime-minister","13":"tag-hungary","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-j-d-vance","16":"tag-photography","17":"tag-political-rally","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-politics-and-government","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-vice-president","22":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116396717670035136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}