Washington, June 25 -- US Vice President JD Vance said that one of the biggest breakthroughs of Washington's recent talks with Iran in Switzerland was an agreement in principle to establish a direct military communication channel between Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the US military's Central Command (CENTCOM) in Qatar, to prevent future military escalation.

Speaking to UnHerd aboard Air Force Two after the Lake Lucerne summit, Vance said Washington had sought "a channel on the Iranian side" for reducing conflict.

"They were like, 'OK, fine, we'll send somebody from the IRGC to go hang out in Doha with somebody from CENTCOM, and that's how we're going to settle a lot of these disputes,'" he said.

The proposed IRGC-C...