Washington DC, July 17 -- US Vice President JD Vance has dismissed a media report as "completely bogus", which alleged that senior White House advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff sought to profit financially from their roles in US-Iran negotiations, saying he never received the alleged private message from Iran.

In a post on X, responding to a media report on Thursday (local time), Vance said, "This is completely bogus. I never received a message like this."

"If I had, I would have said: Jared and Steve are trusted members of the president's team and very dear friends. No one has done more than the two of them to work towards peace and prosperity in the region. The idea they're trading on insider information is absurd," he added in...