In Trump's shadow, Vance becomes face of Iran deal

But even in those media appearances he could not escape the news of the day. As he was sparring with Whoopi Goldberg on ABC's The View, Trump was meeting with world leaders at the G7 summit in the French resort town of Évian-les-Bains.At his press conference on Wednesday, Trump reprised the joke he has made in recent months that he would blame Vance if the Iran-deal" class="entity-link entity-topic" data-entity-id="133298" data-entity-type="topic">Iran deal fails. Trump also appeared to downplay the significance of the memorandum of understanding, at one point questioning whether it was an important enough document for him to sign. Then, soon afterwards, Trump signed a paper copy of the deal on camera during a lavish dinner with French President Emmaneul Macron at the Palace of Versailles - raising questions about why Vance would then need to stage a separate signing event of his own in Geneva.A question that was answered later when the White House announced Vance would not be travelling there - at least for now as logistics for talks with Iran were not yet finalised.With Trump still out of the country, Vance had continued defending the deal as his former colleagues in the Senate criticised it for giving up too much to Iran."Iran's nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future," Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said in a post on X.