Vance Asks Iranian Regime to Please Consider Not Building Bomb After Midterms Go Poorly

Iran is weighing “concrete proposals” on its nuclear program during Qatari-mediated talks meant to wrap up the war, five officials told The New York Times. The development suggests Washington and Tehran might actually reach some sort of agreement, or at least exchange enough paperwork to claim progress.

An American official and two Iranian officials confirmed the details. They called the ideas “concrete proposals” while declining to share any of the actual concrete parts or which nuclear issues they address.

Negotiations are taking place in Doha, where Qatar is serving as mediator between the two countries. Qatari representatives also met Iranian officials in Armenia recently, according to people familiar with the contacts.

Vice President JD Vance backs the mediation, which aims to head off fresh fighting, three of the officials told The New York Times. Last month Vance tried direct outreach by sending a letter to Mohsen Rezaei, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. The letter proposed talks between American and Iranian representatives on both ending the conflict and Iran’s nuclear program.

Rezaei took the letter as proof that Washington had adjusted its stance toward Iran and described the shift as a demonstration of the “Iranian nation’s strength and victory.”

The diplomatic flurry comes after midterm elections that handed Democrats sweeping wins and sparked fresh arguments inside the Trump administration over how the military campaign played with voters. Vance linked part of the Republican losses to public unhappiness with the Iran war in a post on X after the results.

President Donald Trump likewise conceded the conflict may have influenced the outcome, while dismissing any notion that starting the campaign had been an error. Speaking to reporters, Trump stood by the operation against the Iranian regime and said stopping Tehran from getting a nuclear bomb stayed essential no matter the political cost.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry offered no immediate comment on the nuclear proposals under review.

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