US Vice President JD Vance took a dig at Pakistan accusing it of lacking press freedom while defending the delayed public release of a draft US-Iran agreement. Vance said that Pakistan, which claims to be one of the key mediators of the US-Iran peace deal, that differences in political culture had contributed to expectations surrounding the document's release.
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“So first of all, we actually really want to get this out because it’s hard to have the conversation without the full text,” Vance said. “And I think part of the misalignment here is that in the Pakistani and Qatari systems, they don’t quite have the First Amendment and freedom of the press. And so there isn’t this expectation that the text is going to be out there for the American people to actually interrogate and look at and analyze and understand for themselves.”
