Vance: I ‘feel confident’ Israel will join the US-Iran deal ‘further down the road’

US Vice President JD Vance says that he believes Israel will become a party to the emerging US-Iran deal at some point in the future.

“What we know is this agreement is going to make Israel safer, it’s going to make the entire region safer,” Vance tells NBC News in an interview. “What I’ve seen is a lot of misinformation about this agreement — sometimes in the Iranian media, sometimes in the Israeli media.”

“We believe quite firmly that when the Israeli people understand what’s in this agreement, they’re going to see this as a pathway to a new Middle East, to peace and prosperity in that region,” Vance adds. “That’s all we can really ask for. We feel quite confident the Israelis are going to be bought in on this when we get a little further down the road.”

During a press conference this evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that Israel is not a party to the memorandum of understanding and does not yet know the full details of the agreement.

Asked about US President Donald Trump’s harsh public criticism of Netanyahu in recent days, Vance said that “Israel is often a good partner, we also have aligned interests, but also sometimes we’re going to disagree on issues from time to time.”

Vance added that “that’s totally reasonable, even our closest allies, from the United Kingdom to Israel, we sometimes have disagreements.”