00:00U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance speaks to conservative group Turning Point USA.
00:05He's just back from a trip to Pakistan, the mediator in a war between a U.S.-Israeli alliance
00:10and Iran.
00:11Despite a ceasefire, talks there with Iran's envoys didn't get far.
00:15And one key point of conflict, the Strait of Hormuz, key to world oil supplies, is actually
00:21getting thornier, with the U.S. blockading Iran.
00:24Still, Vance says progress may just take some patience, as Iran and the U.S. haven't
00:29had ties in decades.
00:31U.S. President Trump has even hinted talks could start again in a few days.
00:36Look, honestly, after 49 years, there's a lot of, of course, mistrust between Iran and
00:42the United States of America.
00:43You're not going to solve that problem overnight.
00:46But yeah, I think the people we're sitting across from wanted to make a deal.
00:50Patience may be hard for many in the U.S., including for Trump supporters like farmers
00:55here in North Carolina.
00:57Supplies of diesel and fertilizer are blocked off behind the strait.
01:01This year might be salvageable for some, but the 2027 harvest is up in the air if fighting
01:07goes on.
01:07You can't predict everything that's going to happen, but I feel like these things were
01:11kind of overlooked as part of collateral damage that was going to occur to us.
01:17And not just, you know, people that do what we do, just the American people as a whole.
01:22I mean, everybody seems to be suffering.
01:24In parts of the Middle East, though, economic pain is just the beginning of the suffering.
01:29The U.S.-Iran truce was supposed to cover the whole region.
01:32But U.S. ally Israel has kept up strikes on neighboring Lebanon, home to Iranian proxy Hezbollah.
01:40But back in Washington, the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the U.S. meet, a rare event
01:46for these envoys.
01:47Israel's ambassador to the U.S. has a rosy picture of future neighborly ties, but only
01:52if Iran's proxies are gone.
01:55We talked about a number of things, and most importantly, the vision, the long-term vision,
02:01where there will be a clearly delineated border between our countries, and where the only reason
02:08we'll need to cross each other's territory will be in business suits to conduct business,
02:16or in bathing suits to go on vacation.
02:18Today, though, the Strait of Hormuz is still largely shut.
02:22Lebanon is under fire, and Israel is subject to counterattack.
02:26And the sharply opposed Iranian and U.S. positions on everything from Iran's uranium enrichment
02:32to control of the Strait of Hormuz haven't budged.
02:35The question now is whether this ceasefire window can bring lasting peace.
02:40Chris Ma and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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