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Vance warns Iran will ‘find out’ Trump is ‘not one to mess around’ if ceasefire deal falls apart
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Vice President JD Vance says the current ceasefire with Iran is «fragile» but could hold if Tehran negotiates in good faith.
Vance made the comments during a conference in Hungary on Wednesday, saying President Donald Trump won’t hesitate to use drastic tools if Iran breaks the truce. Trump has agreed to a two-week ceasefire predicated on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
«This is why I say this is a fragile truce,» Vance said. «You have people who clearly want to come to the negotiating table and work with us to find a good deal and then you have people who are lying about even the fragile truce that we’ve already struck.»
«If the Iranians are willing in good faith to work with us, I think we can make an agreement,» Vance continued. «If they’re going to lie, if they’re going to cheat, if they’re going to try to prevent even the fragile truce that we’ve set up from taking place, that they’re not going to be happy.»
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest, on April 8, 2026 in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst – Pool/Getty Images)
«What the president has also shown is that we still have clear military, diplomatic and, maybe most importantly, we have extraordinary economic leverage,» he added. «So the President has told us not to use those tools. He’s told us to come to the negotiating table. But if the Iranians don’t do the exact same thing, they’re going to find out that the president of the United States is not one to mess around. He’s impatient. He’s impatient to make progress.»
News of the truce came Tuesday night, barely an hour before Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline, at which he had threatened to begin targeting Iranian energy infrastructure.
The president said the postponement is subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to «the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.»
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President Donald Trump speaks from the Cross Hall of the White House on April 1, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
The administration also received a 10-point proposal from Iran for a wider peace deal, and officials «believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.»
The Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran responded in a statement, thanking Pakistani mediators for their «tireless efforts» to end the war in the region, and agreeing to cease defensive operations if attacks against Iran are halted.
For a period of two weeks, Iran said safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz «will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces» and with «due consideration of technical limitations.»
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Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s U.N. ambassador, left, and President Donald Trump. (Timothy Clary/AFP via Getty Images; Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote in a statement the ceasefire will apply «everywhere,» including Lebanon, effective immediately.
«I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes,» Sharif said. «Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!»
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Further talks between the U.S. and Iran are set to begin on Friday.
Fox News’ Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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Evangelical leaders rally for Trump and Israel as Operation Epic Fury reshapes the region
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Despite efforts to shift evangelical Christian support away from Israel, some of the most influential leaders say the community has stood firmly by the Jewish state since the start of the joint U.S.-Israel operation against Iran.
As Wednesday’s ceasefire took effect, Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem and a close evangelical ally of President Donald Trump, reflected on the war. Evans flew to Israel on Feb. 26 as tensions escalated ahead of the operation.
During his visit, Evans toured impact sites caused by enemy missiles, met wounded civilians and Holocaust survivors, and provided $50,000 in financial assistance to a bereaved family.
«I knew the war would start, so I flew to the area. I have been in 41 wars. I go there intentionally when people are hurting to help them,» Evans told Fox News Digital.
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Rescue workers and military personnel carry a body of a victim from the scene where several people were killed by an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Leo Correa/AP Photo)
On March 1, an Iranian missile struck the city of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, killing nine people. Evans arrived at the scene with first responders shortly after the strike. He later visited Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, where he met Pnina Cohen, who was injured and lost both her husband and mother-in-law in the attack.
«I have been doing this for half a century. This is my life—combating antisemitism and helping the Jewish people,» Evans said.
Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign [named Roaring Lion in Israel], began on Feb. 28, with the stated goal of «obliterating Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and production capacity,» weakening its military infrastructure and preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a White House briefing. The first day of the operation was marked by the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Leading Evangelical figures urge President Trump to continue backing Israel. (Graham; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, Mike Evans;Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
According to Israel’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday, since the beginning of the war, 7,183 people have been evacuated to hospitals, of whom 118 are currently hospitalized.
Evans described the U.S.-Israel partnership as unprecedented. «No one could have imagined an American president partnering so closely with Israel against radical Islam,» he said, calling the campaign «historic.»
He said evangelical support for Israel is rooted in religious belief. «The Bible is a Jewish book, and evangelicals believe in a Jewish person, Jesus,» he said. «They see Israel as the biblical land and believe God keeps his promises.»
The Evangelical Christian community, which numbers about 52 million people in the United States, supported Trump’s presidency on the condition that he would back Israel, Evans said.
Beyond political backing, Evans said evangelicals are active online. «We’ve had 127 million views on social media in the last eight weeks,» he said. «We are fighting misinformation and antisemitism because lies can cost lives.»
He emphasized that support is also practical. «We don’t just offer prayers — we provide financial help to those who lost homes and possessions.»
President Donald Trump bids farewell to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he leaves the White House after a meeting on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Evans acknowledged that a portion of younger evangelicals has shifted away from traditional support for Israel. «A segment has been influenced by universities and online voices,» he said, estimating that about 22% to 23% have shifted. «We are working to reach them and I believe we can.»
American Pastor John Hagee, the founder and chairman of the Christian Zionist organization Christians United for Israel, told Fox News Digital that the evangelical community supports Trump’s decision to seek the end of Iran’s menacing and murderous behavior.
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«We will be backing his request to Congress to fund this effort, and we will ensure our elected officials represent the will and morality of the American people by seeing this righteous endeavor to its righteous end,» he said.
Hagee said that «as Americans, we have a right to defend ourselves against the Islamic Republic’s half-century of terror. As Christians, we are mandated to defend ourselves against evil, to stand with the oppressed against the same, and to stand with the Children of Israel at all times.»
People take shelter as Iran launched missiles and drones towards Israel following the US-Israeli attacks. ( Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«Evangelical Christians who’ve been raised in the church and are biblically literate are Christian Zionists,» he said.
«The rise of antisemitism on the ‘woke right’ is not a product of evangelical churches, but rather a product of the false doctrine of Replacement Theology, repurposed and used as clickbait,» he continued.
Any pastor or priest, politician or podcaster, who charges that the modern Children of Israel are anything other than the direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the beneficiaries of God’s unbreakable Covenant with Israel, Hagee said, is not preaching the word of God.
«Operation Epic Fury is making the world a safer and better place for all its inhabitants; stay the course, Mr. President,» he said.
An Israeli fighter jet takes off for strikes in Tehran. (IDF)
Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, an international, evangelical Christian disaster relief organization, said that Iran has vowed to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the earth, and with nuclear weapons, they could.
«If President Trump had not stopped them, this is something this fanatical Islamic regime might have done within the next few months,» he said.
«My message to the American people would be to remember Israel is the only truly democratic nation in the Middle East — the only one. And they have been our nation’s closest ally in the region. I urge Americans to ‘pray for the peace of Jerusalem’ as the Bible instructs us,» he continued.
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Graham said Trump stood with Israel in a way no other American president did in the past.
«We’ve never had a president like President Trump in my lifetime. If he says he’s going to do something, he’ll do it. He warned Iran that if it continued to develop nuclear weapons, the U.S. would intervene, and that’s exactly what he did.»
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continued calling for President Donald Trump’s ouster on Tuesday even after the president announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran.
«This statement changes nothing,» she asserted in a post on X, referring to the president’s Tuesday evening ceasefire announcement. «Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office.»
Prior to the ceasefire announcement, Trump, who had been threatening to unleash a devastating attack against Iranian power plants and bridges, sent the following warning in a Tuesday morning Truth Social post: «A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?»
Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the progressive cadre of lawmakers known as «The Squad,» responded by declaring in a post on X, «This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.»
But then on Tuesday night, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire.
TRUMP AGREES TO 2-WEEK CEASEFIRE IF IRAN OPENS STRAIT OF HORMUZ
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally on March 21, 2025, at Civic Center Park in Denver, Colo. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)
«Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE!» the president wrote in part of a Truth Social post. «Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.»
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in part of a statement, «If attacks against Iran are halted, our Powerful Armed Forces will cease their defensive operations. For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations.»
But even in light of Trump’s ceasefire announcement, Ocasio-Cortez asserted that the president’s «statement changes nothing.»
«The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat. He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization – which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world,» she wrote in the post on X.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
«Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos – from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe ‘settlements’ – has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people. All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment,» she continued.
«We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States. Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink,» she wrote.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) waves to the crowd ahead of Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration as the 112th mayor at City Hall on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026 in New York, New York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
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