{"id":381,"date":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8881\/2026\/02\/27\/vance-says-no-chance-us-will-get-into-prolonged-middle-east-war-amid-iran-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:20:18","slug":"vance-says-no-chance-us-will-get-into-prolonged-middle-east-war-amid-iran-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/02\/27\/vance-says-no-chance-us-will-get-into-prolonged-middle-east-war-amid-iran-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says &#8216;no chance&#8217; US will get into prolonged Middle East war amid Iran tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As President Donald Trump pressures Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions amid rising tensions, Vice President JD Vance told the Washington Post there is &#8220;no chance&#8221; the U.S. will enter a years-long war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea that we\u2019re going to be in a Middle Eastern war for years with no end in sight \u2014 there is no chance that will happen,&#8221; Vance said on Thursday, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we all prefer the diplomatic option,&#8221; he said, according to the Post. &#8220;But it really depends on what the Iranians do and what they say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IRAN REJECTS TRUMP DEMANDS DESPITE \u2018SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS\u2019 IN NUCLEAR TALKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think we have to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. I also think that we have to avoid overlearning the lessons of the past. Just because one president screwed up a military conflict doesn\u2019t mean we can never engage in military conflict again. We\u2019ve got to be careful about it, but I think the president is being careful,&#8221; Vance told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Vance&#8217;s office and the White House on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KENNEDY WARNS AYATOLLAH WANTS TO \u2018DRINK OUR BLOOD OUT OF A BOOT\u2019 AS IRAN TENSIONS ESCALATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump said during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, &#8220;My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy. But one thing is certain: I will never allow the world&#8217;s number-one sponsor of terror \u2014 which they are by far \u2014 to have a nuclear weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>VANCE SAYS AMERICA \u2018CANNOT GIVE POWER BACK TO CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS\u2019 FOLLOWING THEIR BEHAVIOR AT SOTU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a Truth Social post regarding Iran on Monday, the president said that he &#8220;would rather have a Deal than not but, if we don\u2019t make a Deal, it will be a very bad day for that Country and, very sadly, its people, because they are great and wonderful, and something like this should never have happened to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>Vice President JD Vance told the Washington Post that &#8220;there is no chance&#8221; the U.S. will get into a protracted war in the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}