Vance: Many countries are secretly helping us against Iran

Vance: Many countries are secretly helping us against Iran J. Dey Vance, U.S. Vice President, at a press conference: 🔹The reason the price of gasoline is so high right now is that the Iranians are shooting at commercial shipping. 🔹Just yesterday, we took about 15 million barrels out of the Strait of Hormuz. 🔹The Iranians are realizing that their control over the Strait of Hormuz has effectively vanished, and this leverage is becoming less valuable every day. 🔹My advice to the Iranians is to stop behaving like crazy people and not to shoot at commercial shipping. 🔹Regarding the attack on the wedding ceremony: "In this specific case, I don't think we have information to prove anything one way or another. The United States never targets civilians in war! We are examining the matter. 🔹Economic, military, diplomatic, and covert pressure; everything is on the table. We have many additional tools at our disposal. The President is using some of them and not others. 🔹Regarding the possibility of supporting Iranian opposition: "Of course, I'm not going to talk about it." 🔹We are not talking to the Iranians and will not talk unless they stop shooting at commercial shipping. 🔹We are not setting an artificial deadline for ending the conflict with Iran. 🔹I do not call the current situation a war. Major combat operations lasted about six weeks, during which we destroyed their nuclear facilities, defense industry bases, as well as a large part of their conventional military capability. 🔹We are not setting an artificial deadline. It would be irresponsible to outline our strategy and timeline for a country like Iran. 🔹Iran's capability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans is very limited. We are very confident that our country's soil is safe. 🔹The Iranians will try to do many things that they do not have the capacity to do. If you consider Iran's capability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans, I think it's very limited. It's not zero, but it's very limited. 🔹China has positively responded to some of the U.S. requests regarding Iran. 🔹I think the People's Republic of China has certainly behaved much more responsibly than the Iranians. 🔹Countries are secretly helping the U.S. to sanction Iran. If you look at Turkey, Azerbaijan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and many of the Arab Gulf coalition countries, there are many countries. Sometimes they are not willing to say it publicly, but they are doing many good things in secret to help us ensure that the Iranians pay for shooting at commercial shipping.