The US vice president JD Vance has been making several media appearances to tout the Iran MoU, Al Jazeera reports.

He told Fox News that the Trump administration was in a “great position” regardless of how the talks pan out.

The US “obviously” wanted the talks to succeed, Vance said, but added that his country was “still in a much stronger position” than Iran even if they fail. He insisted that Tehran’s nuclear programme and military had been “destroyed” and warned that Trump had made clear that any Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz would prompt a US military response.

Vance again said Iran would be “permanently transformed” if negotiations aimed at securing a lasting settlement are successful.