Vance declares "Option B is locked and loaded," Trump just pulled back the order to strike Iran, negotiations enter final countdown

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US Vice President JD Vance stated at a White House press conference: negotiations between the US and Iran have made "great progress," but he also warned that the US has a Plan B, which is to restart military action — shells are loaded and fully ready. (Background: NATO warns: if Iran "blockades the Strait of Hormuz until July," it will intervene militarily! International oil and gas prices surge) (Context: Breaking》Trump cancels 5/19 "bomb Iran" plan! Concession to three Middle Eastern countries draws online mockery: TACO Monday) US Vice President JD Vance earlier stood at the White House podium and stated: negotiations between the US and Iran have made "great progress," but he also warned: "We also have a Plan B, which is to restart military action." He then added that statement which kept markets on edge — Shells are loaded and fully ready. We don't want to go down that road, but if necessary, the President has both the will and the capability to act. This logic is a textbook "carrot and stick": one hand offers time for negotiation, the other grips the military option. The question is whether the stick will actually fall this time. To understand why "Plan B" is being taken seriously, look first at the decision Trump let slip earlier on the 19th. He revealed to reporters: he had originally signed an order to launch a new round of military action against Iran, but with the countdown clock down to just 1 hour, he pulled the order at the last minute. The price paid in return was giving Tehran "two or three days" — demanding the other side produce an agreement within that window. Although we don't know whether this is true, the military tension between the US and Iran appears to be closer to a tipping point than it looks on the surface. Vance drew Trump's core red line firmly. He stated: once Iran goes nuclear, Gulf states will inevitably follow suit, and the global nuclear proliferation landscape will be reshuffled — once the domino effect is triggered, there is no turning back. He emphasized that the US wants to keep the number of nuclear-armed states to a minimum, which is the fundamental reason Iran cannot be allowed to go nuclear. The US negotiating goal is therefore not just to have Tehran "pause" uranium enrichment activities, but to ensure that Iran "permanently lacks the capability to rebuild nuclear weapons." Translated into plain language, this means: the mechanism design of any agreement must be able to govern things 10 or 20 years from now — it cannot just be a political compromise of the moment. At the end of the press conference, there was an intriguing episode: a reporter pressed on whether Russia might receive Iran's enriched uranium as part of a negotiated arrangement. Vance did not equivocate: "This is currently not a plan of the US government, nor has Iran put forward such a request." For now, this option has been clearly removed from the public negotiating table — at least on the surface, this question currently has no answer.

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