VP Vance on Iran: If You Shoot at Ships, We’re Going to Punch Back Harder, ‘Knock the Hell Out of Them’

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VANCE: “We came into this situation with maximum leverage and maximum strength. Their nuclear program was destroyed, their conventional military was destroyed. And you’ve got some people within the Iranian system who are saying, 'You know what? We want change our relationship with the United States. We want to turn over a new leaf.' And the president said, 'Okay. We will sit down at the table and negotiate and see if the smart people in that system can take over from the crazy people.' Well, here’s the basic deal that we cut. The basic deal that we cut was, 'We’ll lift our blockade if you stop shooting at ships. But if you shoot a ships, we’re gonna punch back, and we're going to punch back harder than ever before.' That was the deal. They said they would stopped shooting at ships. And what happened 24 hours ago?  They started shooting at ships again. Now, they were good, they were well-behaved for about a week, but then they started shooting at ships. So the deal is very simple: If they shoot at ships, we're going to knock the hell out of them and it’s that simple and that’s the basic way it’s going to work.”