Double defeat for Vance as failed Iran talks and Orban’s exit bruise US vice-president
South China Morning Post
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J.D. Vance had two jobs last week: get an Iran deal and keep Hungary’s Viktor Orban in power.
Neither happened for the US vice-president.
The 41-year-old Vance looked exhausted as he left Pakistan on Sunday after 21 hours that failed to produce an agreement with Tehran to end a war he had never wanted to begin with.
At a terse press conference in Islamabad, Vance delivered the “bad news” and took just three questions before getting on a plane for the long flight back home.
But just before...
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