US Vice President JD Vance has warned that resuming military operations remains an option for Washington should an agreement which satisfies the US not be reached.

“There’s an option B … we could restart the military campaign to continue to prosecute the case … try to achieve America’s objectives, and we can talk a little bit about what that looks like, but that’s not what the president wants and I don’t think that’s what the Iranians want either,” he tells reporters.

Vance adds that Washington and Tehran have an opportunity to “reset” relations between them, and that is what the US will keep working on.

“It takes two to tango: we are not going to have a deal that allows the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon, so as the president just told me, we’re locked and loaded,” he warns.

“We don’t want to go down that pathway, but the president is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to.”