Vance says Trump, US military have prevented ‘energy crisis’ during Iran war

Vice President JD Vance revealed Thursday that the Trump administration is doing “a lot of things” to pressure Iran to stop firing at ships in the Middle East. 

“There are a lot of things that we’re doing, a lot of things that we’re doing, of course, to try to apply pressure on the Iranians to get them to stop shooting at commercial shipping, accepting that they’re still going to try to shoot at commercial shipping. Obviously, we’re protecting a lot of ships, which is why we have not had a worldwide energy crisis,” Vance said at the White House press briefing. 

“I can’t repeat this enough. But for the leadership of President Trump and the hard work of our troops, we would have had an energy crisis because the Iranians refused to stop acting like terrorists in the Strait of Hormuz,” he continued. 

“Now, that said, there are a lot of, of course, additional tools that we have at our disposal, some of those the president will use and some of them he won’t. But I’m not going to advertise exactly how we’re going to engage with the Iranians in the months and years to come, because, it frankly would take away the president’s decision space,” Vance added. 

“But everything that could happen is on the table. Economic pressure, military pressure, diplomatic pressure, covert pressure. Of course, these are things, these are tools in the president’s toolkit,” he also said. “But part of the reason they’re tools in the toolkit is because the vice president, hopefully is not dumb enough to stand up before, you know, all of you and a million Americans watching at home and say exactly what it is that we plan on doing.”