Bangla Press Desk: US Vice President JD Vance says the war with Iran will continue “for a little while longer” until the US and Israel can “neuter” the Islamic Republic.
Asked on the “Benny Show” podcast about rising gas prices due to the war, Vance says the US has “accomplished the vast majority of our military projects” and claims that one could even argue the objectives have actually been met already.“The president’s going to keep at it for a little while longer to ensure that once we leave, we don’t have to do this again for a very, very long time,” Vance says, in a rare acknowledgement that the military gains made by the US will not be permanent.
“This country is threatening us in all these ways. They’re still trying to build a nuclear weapon. We need to neuter them for a very, very long time, and that’s the purpose,” he adds.
Vance acknowledges the rising gas prices but calls them a “very temporary reaction to what is going to ultimately be a short term conflict.”
“We’re not interested in being in Iran a year down the road or two years down the road. We’re taking care of business. We’re going to be out of there soon, and gas prices are going to come back down,” he adds.
The US has already accomplished “the gross majority” if not all of the military objectives against the hardline regime, Vance said.
Higher gas prices directly resulting from the war effort — the Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most critical oil chokepoint which Tehran has a stranglehold on — are a “very, very temporary reaction to what is going to ultimately be a short term conflict,” according to the vice president.
The following day, US Central Command boasted about the exact kind of neutering the vice president referred to in a bombastic social media post showing unclassified video of Iranian ships being obliterated.
“For decades, Iranian naval vessels have threatened and harassed global shipping in regional waters, but those days are over,” US CENTCOM wrote in a caption to the X post.
