'Terrible': JD Vance warns Iran could blow up supermarkets with nuclear suicide vests

Vice President JD Vance suggested that Iran had the desire to blow up grocery stores with nuclear suicide vests.

During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Vance praised the U.S. military strikes on Iran for creating options for negotiations.

"What we have now that we didn't have when the president took over just a little over a year ago is the ability to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon," he explained. "Because when I say options, I think it's important the American people know, options, and it's options to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon."

"You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, for what? And they blow up the vest, and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest, it's not something that can kill a couple of people but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?" he added.

Vance reiterated a Trump administration talking point about preventing Iran from building or obtaining a nuclear weapon.

"That is the most important American national security objective that exists for any administration at any time is you don't want the worst people in the world to have a nuclear weapon."