JD Vance says US remains ‘locked and loaded’ to restart military campaign as Iran warns of ‘new fronts’ – as it happened

Key points

• 18.49 BST Vance says Iran must agree to never have a nuclear weapon or US remains 'locked and loaded' to restart military campaign Giving an update on Iran, JD Vance says the US has a “simple proposition” and there are “two paths to go down”.
• “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he says, warning of the associated dangers and touting the US’s “degradation” of Iran’s military capabilities.
• He says Iran having a nuclear weapon would lead to other nations “scrambling” to get their own, setting off a “nuclear arms race” that would “make us all much less safe”.
• “Iran would really be the first domino in what would set off a nuclear arms race all over the world,” he says.
• He says the US is “willing to cut a deal so long as the Iranians are willing to meet us on that core issue of never having a nuclear weapon”....