As part of its efforts to exert pressure on Iran, the United States may, among other things, stage covert subversive operations, US Vice President JD Vance told reporters at the White House.

"I'm not going to advertise exactly how we're going to engage with the Iranians in the months and years to come because it frankly would take away the president's decision space. But everything that could happen is on the table: economic pressure, military pressure, diplomatic pressure, covert pressure," he said when asked whether Washington was considering covert operations as a tool of pressure on Iran.