India, Oct. 29 -- US vice president JD Vance has reportedly reached out to one of Iran's "most powerful hardliner" as President Donald Trump weighs the possibility of resuming military action against Iran following next week's midterm elections.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Vance sent a letter, at Trump's direction, to Mohsen Rezaei, a senior figure in Iran's Supreme National Security Council and a former longtime commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The move appears to be an attempt by Vance to explore whether Washington and Tehran could find enough common ground to persuade Trump not to give a final order for a short, intense attack on Iran in the coming weeks.

Vance's letter and subsequent ...