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Vance says ‘there’s no way’ Trump will let US get into multiyear conflict

03 March 2026 10:23 (UTC +04:00)

Vice President JD Vance dismissed the notion that the U.S. operation in Iran would lead to a prolonged conflict on Monday, saying there is no way Trump would let Washington end up in a multiyear conflict, APA reports.

“What’s so different about this is that the president has clearly defined what he wants to accomplish,” Vance told conservative talk show host Jesse Waters on Fox News in his first interview since the U.S. strikes on Iran over the weekend.

“There’s just no way that Donald Trump is going to allow this country to get into a multi-year conflict with no clear end in sight, and no clear objective,” he continued.

“What is different about President Trump, and it’s frankly different from Republicans and Democrats of the past, is that he’s not going to let his country go to war unless there’s a clearly defined objective. He’s defined that objective as Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has to commit long-term to never try to rebuild their nuclear capability. It’s pretty clear. It’s pretty simple, and I think that means that we’re not going to get into the problems that we’ve had with Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said.

Vance has long been perceived as an anti-interventionalist, along with many of Trump’s “America First” allies. Trump himself campaigned on keeping the U.S. out of prolonged military conflicts abroad.

Trump and members of his administration have laid out what they say are the president’s “objectives” in striking Iran, including destroying the country’s missiles and Navy, ensuring that Iranian proxies can no longer pose a threat to U.S. interests and the Middle East, and preventing Tehran from rebuilding its nuclear weapons program.

“An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people,” Trump said at the White House on Monday.