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Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Tuesday excoriated the Biden-Harris administration’s policy toward Iran in the opening row of the vice presidential debate, blaming the White House for funding the Iranian military’s operations through sanctions relief.

“Iran, which launched this attack, has received over $100 billion in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration,” Vance said. “What do they use that money for? They use it to buy weapons that they’re now launching against our allies and, God forbid, potentially launching against the United States as well.”

Walz, for his part, retorted that Trump had withdrawn the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal and that “Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before because of Donald Trump’s fickle leadership.”

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Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., have taken the stage in the CBS News vice presidential debate.

The pair are facing off in New York City at the network’s broadcast center. The 90-minute contest will not feature opening statements and neither candidate’s microphone will be muted when the other is speaking.

The contest is set to be their only face-off of the 2024 election cycle and follows former President Donald Trump’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC News last month.