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US Vice-President JD Vance has lashed out at Israeli critics of the Iran deal, saying US President Donald Trump is Israel’s only ally, in a sharp rebuke that referenced the billions in American defence aid the country receives.

It comes as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said Mr Trump signed the deal “out of desperation” and signalled that upcoming talks over Iran’s nuclear program — the US president’s stated reason for starting the war — would not be easy.

“If the American side wants to be too demanding, we will not accept it,” he said in a written message.

Mr Vance has defended the agreement reached this week to end the war with Iran that critics in the US and Israel have slammed for failing to curb Iran’s missile program and providing no clear path to dismantling its nuclear facilities, while constraining Israel in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

The vice-president, asked at a White House news briefing about a report that Benjamin Netanyahu was fuming over the agreement, said he had not heard such comments from the Israeli prime minister but criticised members of the Israeli leader’s cabinet, who he said have attacked the deal and Mr Trump.

“My message to them would be twofold. Number one: Donald J Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Mr Vance said.

He said he would also remind those cabinet members that two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected Israel “have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars”.

The United States provides Israel with roughly $US4 billion ($5.7b) in military assistance a year, but the two countries are negotiating a new aid agreement.

“The problem for Israel is not Donald J Trump and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in,” Mr Vance said.

Mr Netanyahu’s office and Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has harshly rebuked the US-Iran deal and insisted Israeli troops would remain in Lebanon.

Mr Vance criticised Mr Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in a New York Times interview released earlier on Thursday, local time.

“What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have,” Mr Vance said.

“My message to them would be twofold. Number one: Donald J Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Mr Vance said.

“If I were in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world.”

He said he would also remind those cabinet members that two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected Israel “have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars”.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-19/oil-flows-through-strait-but-lebanon-strikes-raise-peace-doubts/106816852

Remarkably candid

The Zionist Supremacists are pissed.

Trump is making sure that Vance is unelectable.