Vance calls US-Iran ceasefire deal a ‘fragile truce’

Published April 8, 2026 9:46am ET



Vice President JD Vance warned that the recently negotiated two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was a “fragile truce,” while speaking in Hungary.

“The United States agreed to stop attacking, and that not just the United States, but also our allies, have agreed to stop attacking, and that is the basis of this fragile truce that we have, which is now eight to 12 hours old,” Vance said in Budapest at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Hungary’s largest educational institution.

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