2026-04-10T09:00:55.765Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：亚当·坎ryn、阿莱娜·特里尼、凯文·利普塔克
发布时间：2026年4月10日，美国东部时间上午5:00
美国副总统J·D·万斯4月8日在布达佩斯登机返回华盛顿特区前接受媒体采访。
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近一个月来，美国与伊朗开战期间，副总统J·D·万斯大多淡出公众视野，而他私下里曾担心这场战争会失控。
然而，随着唐纳德·特朗普总统如今急于促成冲突结束，万斯已成为核心参与者，承担起重要的公开角色。
万斯将于周六前往巴基斯坦，主持旨在巩固美伊之间脆弱停火的谈判——在此过程中，他将提升自身作为本届政府关键和平使者的地位，而该政府近几周一直深陷战争泥潭。
这是一项艰巨的任务，成功的可能性微乎其微。双方分歧巨大，仍在互相抨击，自周二突然宣布停火以来的数小时里，几乎没有迹象表明紧张局势已大幅缓和。
但多名知情人士透露，对于这位曾直言反对外战、从一开始就对打击伊朗持保留态度的万斯而言，谈判达成持久协议的机会是他几周来一直在幕后争取的。
考虑到万斯正在考虑未来参选总统，这或许将为他提供迄今为止最佳的契机，帮助他在这场原本对政府造成政治损害的时期中，提升自身地位。
“这是一个关键时刻，可能是J·D·万斯担任副总统以来最重要的时刻，”美国保守派联盟执行主任、万斯的盟友柯特·米尔斯表示，他一直批评这场战争。“危机伴随着机遇，如果他能解决这些问题，将对他的政治前景非常有利且有效。”
预计万斯将与特朗普的首席外交特使史蒂夫·维特科夫夫和贾里德·库什纳一同率领美国代表团，参加自战争爆发以来美国与伊朗的首次面对面会谈。
白宫官员表示，万斯的出席旨在为谈判增添可信度，因为他在白宫内部具有影响力，且特朗普信任他能够清晰阐述政府的具体诉求。一名白宫官员透露，特朗普亲自要求万斯牵头重启与伊朗的谈判。
一些人希望派遣万斯此举能够铺平和平道路。伊朗方面已表示，将他视为更理性的谈判者——此前特朗普下令发动袭击，导致伊朗与库什纳和维特科夫夫的谈判突然终止。
两名知情人士透露，伊朗政权也清楚万斯以直言不讳的反干预主义者著称，一直在关注他作为仅有的几位高级美国官员之一，曾试图劝说特朗普不要发动打击的相关报道。
一名白宫官员驳斥了伊朗更倾向于与万斯谈判的说法，称这是一场“精心协调的宣传运动”，“完全虚假，旨在破坏谈判”。
白宫发言人安娜·凯利在一份声明中表示，万斯、维特科夫夫、库什纳和国务卿马可·卢比奥“始终在这些讨论中进行协作”，总统对能够达成一项为中东带来持久和平的协议持乐观态度。
从勉强的战争支持者到幕后和平斡旋者
在为期40天的战争期间，万斯刻意避免成为战争的主要代言人之一，而是将这一角色让给政府中的其他人。
过去一个月，万斯的公众形象与他作为政府其他优先事项主要支持者时那种高调且 often 好斗的形象截然不同。他甚至大幅减少了在X平台上的发帖量——此前他经常利用该平台回击批评者、阐述自己的想法——白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张表示，这一转变是因为万斯决定在四旬斋期间停用该社交平台。
尽管如此，万斯仍经常为总统发动战争的权利辩护，并坚称在与伊朗人谈判时，他会在特朗普的诉求上持强硬立场。
“如果他们不满足我们的需求，那情况会很糟糕，”他对记者表示。
但当政府中的其他人试图向持怀疑态度的美国民众推销这场战争时，万斯选择了更为低调的方式，他与中东的中间人建立了后台沟通渠道，希望为最终通过谈判达成解决方案奠定基础，知情人士透露。
到特朗普威胁称，如果不满足其要求就将“彻底摧毁一个文明”时，万斯已经与巴基斯坦谈判人员就停战途径保持定期联系，经常与该国陆军参谋长阿西姆·穆尼尔元帅沟通，知情人士表示。
尽管做出了这些努力，截至周二之前的谈判进展缓慢。上周某一时刻，伊朗方面迟迟未给出回应，万斯传达了一名知情人士所称的“严厉信息”：特朗普急于达成协议——如果伊朗拒绝，准备加大对伊朗基础设施的施压。
尽管本周早些时候万斯搭乘夜间航班前往匈牙利布达佩斯，为陷入困境的总理维克托·欧尔班造势时，谈判已取得进展，但又花了一整天的时间才最终达成协议。在与欧尔班一同出席竞选活动后，万斯工作至凌晨，协助促成了这项协议。
“我昨晚很晚还在讨论这件事，”他在周三因抵达延误向一群匈牙利大学生发表讲话时承认，此时距离他促成停火仅过去数小时。
但即便这一 tentative 的和平步骤将万斯推到了冲突关键下一阶段的核心公开角色中，他仍低调处理了自己的参与。
“我的主要角色就是打了很多电话，”他在停火声明发布后对记者表示。
一次保全其反干预主义信誉的机会
副总统需要尽快取得足够进展，说服特朗普延长为期两周的停火，并缓解其对伊朗发动新一轮打击的威胁。
除了决定战争的走向外，万斯对谈判的管理还将塑造他自己未来的政治轨迹，在2028年的总统大选中，他可能会与卢比奥同台竞争。
万斯是一名退伍军人，长期以来一直对外国纠葛持怀疑态度，他的政治崛起得益于共和党反干预主义阵营的长期支持。万斯的盟友表示，尽管绝大多数“让美国再次伟大”的支持者仍保持支持，但许多核心支持者认为这场战争背叛了他们的理念。
到目前为止，万斯一直回避有关2028年寻求更高职位的猜测，而是选择紧紧追随特朗普，扮演忠诚的配角。
“副总统圈子里没有人会从未来政治考量的角度来思考这件事，”一名了解万斯想法的人士表示。
但在这场普遍不受欢迎的战争持续五周后，特朗普的政治地位进一步削弱，质疑万斯如何才能在不损害其反干预主义信誉的情况下摆脱这场战争的支持者感到沮丧，这些支持者如今看到了一线希望。
米尔斯表示，与伊朗达成协议的可能性似乎渺茫，但如果万斯能在促成协议中发挥核心作用，这将对他在党内的势头带来巨大推动。即便停火协议落空，如今明确表明自己一直在努力结束战争，对万斯而言几乎没有任何坏处。
“他需要拥有自己的身份，”米尔斯说。“这几乎没有风险。在这整件事中，他一直承受打击，现在看到他进行反击非常好。”
CNN的克里斯汀·霍姆斯对本文亦有贡献。
How JD Vance went from well-known foreign war skeptic to the public face of peace talks with Iran
2026-04-10T09:00:55.765Z / CNN
By Adam Cancryn, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak
PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media before boarding Air Force Two to return to Washington, DC, from Budapest, Hungary, on April 8.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters/Pool
Vice President JD Vance spent the last month largely out of the limelight as the US waged a war with Iran that he’d privately worried would spiral out of control.
Yet with President Donald Trump now eager to broker an end to the conflict, he’s emerged as a central player with a major public role.
Vance will travel to Pakistan on Saturday to helm talks aimed at solidifying the fragile truce between the US and Iran — and in the process, elevate himself as the key peacemaker within an administration that has devoted its last several weeks to war.
It’s a daunting mission that carries little guarantee of success. The two sides are far apart and still trading barbs, offering few signs that tensions have substantially eased in the hours since Tuesday’s abrupt ceasefire announcement.
But for Vance, a prominent critic of foreign wars who harbored reservations from the start about striking Iran, the chance to negotiate a lasting deal is one he’s spent weeks working toward behind the scenes, multiple people familiar with the matter said.
And as he mulls a future presidential bid, it will offer the vice president perhaps his best opening yet to emerge in a strengthened position from an otherwise politically damaging period for the administration.
“This is a crucial moment, probably the biggest moment for JD Vance as vice president,” said Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative and a Vance ally who’s been critical of the war. “With crisis comes opportunity, and if he solves these problems, it could be very important and effective for his prospects.”
Vance is expected to lead the US delegation alongside Trump’s chief diplomatic envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, in the administration’s first face-to-face meeting with Iran since the war began.
Vance’s presence is meant to lend credence to the talks, White House officials said, given his stature within the West Wing and Trump’s trust in his ability to lay out the administration’s specific demands. Trump personally asked him to lead the renewed talks with Iran, a White House official said.
Dispatching Vance is also a move that some hope could smooth the path toward peace. Iran has signaled that it views him as a more reasonable negotiator, after its previous talks with Kushner and Witkoff ended abruptly when Trump decided to attack.
The regime is also well aware of Vance’s reputation as an outspoken anti-interventionist, having monitored reports of his role as one of the only high-ranking US officials who tried to talk Trump out of striking in the first place, two sources familiar with the matter said.
A White House official disputed assertions that Iran preferred negotiating with Vance, calling it a “clearly coordinated propaganda campaign” that is “utterly false and peddled to attempt to quash negotiations.”
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Vance, Witkoff, Kushner and Secretary of State Marco Rubio “have always been collaborating on these discussions, and the President is optimistic that a deal can be reached that can lead to long lasting peace in the Middle East.”
From reluctant war defender to behind-the-scenes peace broker
Throughout the 40-day war, Vance studiously avoided becoming one of the main faces of the fight, ceding that role instead to others in the administration.
Vance’s public profile over the past month marked a departure from the vocal and often pugilistic role he’s played as chief cheerleader of the White House’s other priorities. He’s even sharply dialed back his posting on X, which he regularly used to hit back at critics and explain his own thinking — a shift that White House communications director Steven Cheung said was a result of Vance deciding to give up the social media platform for Lent.
Vance has nevertheless frequently defended the president’s right to wage the war, and insisted that he will draw a hard line on Trump’s demands during talks with the Iranians.
“If they don’t give us what we need, then I think it’s going to be bad,” he told reporters.
But while others in the administration sought to sell a skeptical American public on the conflict, Vance opted for a quieter pursuit, establishing a backchannel with intermediaries in the Middle East in hopes of laying the groundwork for an eventual negotiated settlement, people familiar with the discussions said.
By the time Trump threatened to wipe out “a whole civilization” if he didn’t get his way, Vance had been in regular contact with Pakistani negotiators about an off-ramp, speaking often with the country’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, people familiar said.
Despite those efforts, progress leading up to Tuesday was slow going. At one point last week, Vance responded to a delay in Iranian responses by conveying what one person familiar with the matter described as a “stern message” that Trump was impatient to reach a deal — and ready to escalate pressure on Iran’s infrastructure if they refused.
Though talks were advancing by the time Vance left earlier this week on an overnight flight to Budapest, Hungary, to rally on behalf of embattled Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, it would take another full day of work to get it over the finish line. After appearing with Orbán at a campaign event, Vance worked into the early hours to help broker the agreement.
“I was up very late last night talking about that,” he acknowledged on Wednesday after arriving behind schedule to address a room of Hungarian university students just hours after clinching the ceasefire.
But even as that tentative step toward peace has thrust Vance into a far more public role at the center of a critical next phase of the conflict, he’s downplayed his involvement.
“My key role was I sat on the phone a lot,” he told reporters after the ceasefire announcement.
A chance to preserve his anti-interventionist credibility
The vice president has limited time to make enough headway to convince Trump to extend the two-week ceasefire and ease his threats to unleash a fresh barrage on Iran.
And in addition to determining the course of the war, Vance’s management of the negotiations also stands to shape his own future political trajectory ahead of a 2028 contest that could pit him against Rubio.
Vance is a military veteran with a long history as a skeptic of foreign entanglements, and his political rise was bolstered by long-standing support from the GOP’s anti-interventionist wing. Many of those core Vance supporters have felt betrayed by the war, Vance allies said, even as much of the MAGA base remains in line.
The vice president has so far brushed off any speculation about seeking higher office in 2028, opting instead to stick close to Trump and play a loyal supporting role.
“No one in the vice president’s orbit is thinking about this in the realm of future political considerations,” a person familiar with Vance’s thinking said.
But after five weeks of a broadly unpopular war that has further weakened Trump politically and dismayed Vance supporters who questioned how he could emerge from the war with his anti-interventionist credibility intact, those supporters now see a narrow opportunity.
The odds of a deal with Iran may appear slim, but if Vance can play a central role in clinching it, Mills said, it would be a massive boon for his momentum within the party. And even if the ceasefire falls through, at this point there may be little downside for Vance in making abundantly clear that he’s trying to end the war.
“He needs to have his own identity,” Mills said. “There’s almost no risk. He’s only taken punches in all of this, and so it’s very good to see him punch back.”
CNN’s Kristen Holmes contributed to this report.
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