U.S. President Donald Trump has asked Vice President J.D. Vance to focus his full attention on corruption and widespread crime in cities and states run by Democrats across the United States. In doing so, he has removed him from peace negotiations with Iran. In a post on social media, Trump wrote that “we do not need a deal with Iran” and that “those days have long passed.” The post marks a change of direction in the president’s instructions to the vice president. Vance recently linked the Republicans’ heavy defeat in the midterm elections to the U.S. strike on Iran, the New York Times wrote in its interpretation of the post. Meanwhile, Politico described the move as Vance stepping back from the issue, shifting the focus to domestic U.S. issues and away from a deal with Iran.