‘Go to hell’: Vance lashes out at reported Israeli-backed online campaign smearing Iran MOU

US Vice President JD Vance fumes at a reported Israeli government-funded influence campaign aimed at criticizing the Trump administration’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran war.

“You have seen this very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiations and try to derail the deal,” Vance says during an interview with conservative podcaster Joe Rogan.

There was this Time article that came out yesterday… It lists a bunch of people who have been paid by a former Trump campaign person who was himself paid by certain elements within the Israeli government, and those people are attacking me viciously for trying to accomplish the negotiation objective that the president set for the country,” Vance says.

“It’s social media posts, it’s leaking to reporters — they’re attacking me obsessively, saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran. We should just keep the military campaign going indefinitely,” Vance continues.

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“People have come after me and said I’m influenced by Qatar, that I’m influenced by foreign governments, that I take my marching orders from Tucker Carlson, and there’s just so much bullshit out there,” he says.

“Let’s say certain elements of the Israeli government want to criticize the deal or have disagreements about the deal. I don’t even mind an effort to try to influence. Foreign governments try to influence the United States all the time. Israel does it. Other countries do it… What bothers me is when American leadership allows that influence to affect their judgment and to affect what they are advocating for,” Vance adds.

“When I open up the pages of Time magazine and I see that there’s a literal foreign influence campaign being funded to tank the very deal that I was pursuing, and many of the people who were receiving that money were attacking me in completely dishonest ways, my response to that is, Go to hell. I’m going to do what I have to do for the American people. I represent Americans first,” he asserts.

“There are some people within (the Israeli) system we know beyond a shadow of a doubt who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely,” Vance adds.