Budapest, April 7 -- US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday said the "ball is in the Iranians' court" as Washington awaits Tehran's response to ongoing negotiations, warning that the United States has the capacity to impose significantly greater costs if needed.

Speaking during remarks alongside Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Vance underscored that while the US prefers a diplomatic outcome, it retains powerful options.

"And the President of the United States is a man who recognises leverage, that if the Iranians want to exact a certain amount of pain, the United States has the ability to exact much, much greater pain. The President doesn't want to do that, I don't want to do that. That's why we're negotiating so aggre...