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The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

JD Vance’s key role in Iran talks presents him with a thorny predicament

a man in a suit looks ahead
Vice-President JD Vance listens as Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office of the White House on 23 April. Photograph: Will Oliver/Pool/Will Oliver - Pool/CNP/Shutterstock

As a man who wears his Christian beliefs on his sleeve, JD Vance is no doubt acutely conscious of Jesus Christ’s dictum from his Sermon on the Mount declaring that “blessed are the peacemakers”.

Yet the US vice-president, a Catholic convert who recently found himself at odds with Pope Leo, is discovering the difficulties of living up to that standard while serving a mercurial political master who is waging a war Vance once cautioned against.

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