Vance takes lead selling Trump’s Iran gamble as Rubio, Hegseth and Ratcliffe cede spotlight on fragile deal

Vice President JD Vance is the Trump administration’s primary public advocate for a 60-day U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at negotiating enforceable nuclear terms, while internal divisions among officials like Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and John Ratcliffe over the deal’s viability are reported. President Trump has emphasized Vance’s role in defending the MOU, which remains a fragile framework without resolving core disputes over Iran’s nuclear program.