According to France 24, Vice President JD Vance is claiming "good progress" on US-Iran peace negotiations, even as President Trump continues to threaten military action. University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato offers a sobering counter-narrative: this conflict is "almost universally seen as a fiasco" domestically—seventy percent of Americans oppose it, a level of opposition that Sabato calls unprecedented. Sabato also warns that the Trump administration's war strategy remains incoherent, noting the president "cannot stick to a script and cannot stick to a prearranged strategy." With negotiations ongoing and no clarity on the White House's actual direction, Sabato predicts "it's going to be a long sixty days."

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