Vice President Vance said Monday that President Trump wants “to build a long-term settlement” to ensure Iran does not rebuild its nuclear program.

“While we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, our hope and our expectation is that they’re not gonna try to rebuild that program,” Vance told Fox News’s Bret Baier on “Special Report.”

“And I think that’s what the president is really trying to figure out here, is to build a long-term settlement here, to where we can have peace in the region, where our regional allies, and of course, the American people, most importantly, can be secured, but where we can ensure that the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program that has already happened, is not something they try to rebuild,” he added.

President Trump announced Saturday that the United States had bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, stepping into a conflict between Iran and Israel that began earlier this month.

Tensions in the Middle East were already high when the recent conflict between Iran and Israel broke out, due to Israel’s war in Gaza and Iran’s nuclear capability. 

Iran said it paused attacks on Israel Monday, but also stated it had not come to a “final decision” on a ceasefire, after Trump had said earlier in the day that Israel and Iran had “fully agreed” on “a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,” on Truth Social, adding that it was going to start “in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!”