Vance signals disagreement with Trump over Iran war in Spicer interview

US Vice President JD Vance has suggested that he may have disagreed with President Donald Trump over the Iran war, in what is being described as the clearest public signal yet of daylight between the two on the conflict.

Speaking in an interview aired Friday on a political talk show hosted by former White House spokesman Sean Spicer, Vance was responding to a question about his relationship with commentator Tucker Carlson, a former Trump ally who has sharply criticised the war as serving Israeli rather than American interests and contradicting Trump’s pledge to avoid costly foreign military interventions.

“Even if you disagree with him on that one issue, you can have that disagreement. And I think I have had that disagreement,” Vance said, according to Anadolu Agency.

Vance said Carlson was “very, very angry” over the war: “He and I have had that conversation in private, in public. I know how he feels, and I understand.” He urged Carlson not to abandon the administration over the issue: “What I’ve said to Tucker is don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater … Aren’t closed borders and ending the ridiculous anti-white racial discrimination in our university admissions, aren’t these things worth actually acknowledging that Donald Trump has done a lot of good?”

The remarks come as Trump says the United States may strike Iran’s fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site, Türkiye Today reported.

Sources: Anadolu Agency; Dawn live blog; Türkiye Today.