Vance says U.S. "never indicated" Lebanon would be included in ceasefire deal

Politics Vance says "ceasefires are always messy" and U.S. "never indicated" Lebanon would be included in deal with Iran By Kathryn Watson Kathryn Watson Politics Reporter Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C. Read Full Bio Kathryn Watson April 8, 2026 / 4:59 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday said "ceasefires are always messy," and responded to claims by Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf that the U.S. has violated three clauses of the ceasefire agreement in its war with Iran. The U.S. never promised Lebanon would be included in the ceasefire agreement, Vance said, despite Iran's claims it was, chalking that up to a "reasonable misunderstanding" between the parties. Vance said he's not confident in how well Ghalibaf understands English, "because there are things that he said, frankly, that didn't make sense in the context of negotiations that we've had." On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament speaker claimed the U.S. is violating three parts of a ceasefire deal, citing continued fire in Lebanon, a drone allegedly entering Iranian airspace and a "denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium." Vance said that if Ghalibaf only has three points of disagreement, there must be quite a lot of agreement."First of all, he talked about an attack that allegedly happened on Iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire. Ceasefires are always messy," the vice president said, adding that an hour after President Trump announced the ceasefire, there were a bunch of missiles, the Israelis responded, and so did some of the Gulf Arab states. There were new attacks on America's Persian Gulf allies early Wednesday, followed by reports of explosions on Iranian islands in the Gulf."This is the nature of a ceasefire," Vance continued. "No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness. What we have been very clear about is that we want to stop the bombing....