{"id":45535,"date":"2026-08-15T00:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=45535"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:53:36","slug":"foxs-mark-levin-takes-a-veiled-swipe-at-jd-vances-new-iran-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=45535","title":{"rendered":"Fox\u2019s Mark Levin Takes a Veiled Swipe At JD Vance\u2019s New Iran Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5741745\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5741745\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5741745\" src=\"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VanceNov-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5741745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fox News host <strong>Mark Levin<\/strong> took a veiled swipe at Vice President<strong> JD Vance<\/strong> on Friday, expressing his displeasure with Vance\u2019s \u201ctwofold\u201d objectives in Iran, which he laid out on Fox News the day before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it really is twofold: it\u2019s ensuring that the Gulf countries continue to send oil and gas to the world economy so that we have energy price stability \u2014 that\u2019s obviously important for the American people. I know that oil is down today, and it\u2019s way down from the highs in the early days of the conflict,\u201d Vance told Fox News host <strong>Will Cain<\/strong>, who pressed Vance on how the war ends given its frustrating and \u201cseesaw nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s goal number one: keep oil and gasoline cheap for Americans all over our country. And then, obviously, goal number two is ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. I feel confident we\u2019re accomplishing both of those goals, but it\u2019s inherently an unpredictable thing, because the Iranians themselves are unpredictable, and they sometimes don\u2019t honor the commitments they\u2019ve made to us,\u201d Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/how-does-this-end-fox-news-host-presses-jd-vance-on-seesaw-iran-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Levin reacted on X, ripping the two objectives Vance mentioned, but did not call out the vice president by name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t know our objectives in the war against Iran are: 1. cheap oil and, 2. no nukes. I thought it was: 1. no nukes, 2. no enriched uranium, 3. help is on the way for the Iranian people. Of course, the Strait of Hormuz must remain international waters and open. But it was open before the war. It was never an objective for going to war,\u201d Levin wrote, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marklevinshow\/status\/2088257395948503358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adding<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That said, given the Iranian regime&#8217;s actions re the Strait, we obviously must confront them there and we are. But even there, we are not declaring that the Iranian regime mustn&#8217;t control any aspect of the Strait, but that oil must be cheap. We are ratcheting down our war objectives, at least in the public statements of senior officials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/foxs-mark-levin-takes-a-veiled-swipe-at-jd-vances-new-iran-objectives\/\">Fox\u2019s Mark Levin Takes a Veiled Swipe At JD Vance\u2019s New Iran Objectives<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Fox News host Mark Levin took a veiled swipe at Vice President JD Vance on Friday, expressing his displeasure with Vance\u2019s \u201ctwofold\u201d objectives in Iran, which he laid out on Fox News the day before. \u201cAnd it really is twofold: it\u2019s ensuring that the Gulf countries continue to send oil and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/am11.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VanceNov-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}