Vice President JD Vance was in Budapest this week, visiting Viktor Orbán’s government and fielding questions about the Iran situation from abroad.

On the drone incident in Iranian airspace — which Tehran cited as a ceasefire violation — Vance offered: “Ceasefires are always messy.”

He also reaffirmed the US position that Iran should not be allowed to enrich uranium, and clarified that any ceasefire covering Lebanon was not part of the agreement. Which is a message that directly contradicts what Iran’s leadership has been saying publicly.

Two weeks. That’s the window Trump got with Iran — and it’s already leaking.

The deal, announced Tuesday, paused US-Iran hostilities and was supposed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Markets popped. Oil dropped. Everyone exhaled.

Then Israel kept bombing Lebanon. Iran said the ceasefire covered Lebanon. The White House said it didn’t. Tehran’s parliamentary speaker Ghalibaf posted that “time is running out” and warned of “strong responses” to violations. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia intercepted nine drones and the UAE shot down 17 ballistic missiles and 35 drones — all within hours of the ceasefire announcement.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau summoned Iraq’s ambassador to Washington Thursday to formally condemn Iranian-backed militia attacks on US diplomatic facilities and personnel in Iraq.

The readout acknowledged Iraqi security forces had responded to some attacks — then immediately noted that “some elements associated with the Iraqi government continue to actively provide political, financial, and operational cover for the militias.” Landau called the April 8 ambush of US personnel an “egregious terrorist attack.”

The State Department summoned Iraq’s ambassador this week to formally condemn attacks by Iranian-backed militias on US diplomatic facilities and personnel. Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau acknowledged Iraqi security forces made some effort to respond but delivered an unmistakable message: Baghdad’s failure to prevent these attacks — and the fact that elements within the Iraqi government are actively covering for the militias — is damaging the bilateral relationship.

The specific trigger was an April 8 ambush of US personnel. That’s not a protest outside a gate. That’s an armed attack on American forces, and it happened while a nominal ceasefire with Iran was supposed to be in effect.

A last-minute ceasefire between the United States and Iran landed just before Trump’s ultimatum deadline expired. The deal pauses a conflict that had been grinding through its sixth week, with U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure and Iran striking back at regional targets.

The terms: Iran agreed to discuss opening the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. agreed to suspend offensive operations for two weeks. Trump called it a win. Iran’s government called it a pause. Israel said it wasn’t bound by any of it and kept striking Hezbollah positions in Lebanon anyway.