‘Going to get response by…’: Vance remains hopeful on Hormuz deadline as Trump threatens to wipe ‘whole civilisation’

US Vice President, JD Vance remained hopeful that “US is going to get a response from the Iranians by 8 o'clock tonight," a deadline that Trump had set over the weekend. He said that he “feels confident” that the US "can get a response, whether its positive or negative."

“...The ball is in the Iranians court now....Iranians are not the fastest negotiators before the war started and they are certainly not the fastest negotiators now. We recognize there's some delay sometimes in transmitting messages from one person to another, but we feel confident that we can get a response, whether it's positive or negative. We're going to get a response from the Iranians by 8 o'clock tonight," said Vance.

On Tuesday, the US President ramped up his threats, boldly declaring that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

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