{"id":162240,"date":"2026-06-16T06:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/162240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:12:22","slug":"jd-vance-says-he-is-confident-about-israel-joining-irans-mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/162240\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance says he is confident about Israel joining Iran’s MoU"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Vice President JD Vance said that he is confident that Israel would join the agreement with Iran “further down the road,” when asked about Israeli involvement in the US-Iran memorandum of understanding<\/a> (MoU) during a Monday night interview with CBS News.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we know,\u201d he said, \u00a0\u201cis that this agreement is going to make Israel safer, going to make the entire region safer. We feel quite confident that the Israelis are going to be brought in on this agreement once we get a little further down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also added that he believes it’s normal for close allies to have disagreements.<\/p>\n

Uranium stockpile at center of deal<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them [Iran] to behave like a normal country,\u201d Vance said, and explained that if Tehran complies with the points outlined in the MoU, including giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, stopping funding to terrorist organizations, and making the country investible, then \u201cbenefits will float to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Vance, the US’s focus is on the enriched uranium, which, according to the MoU, would be destroyed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)<\/a> and the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want them to have a successful country, but only if they do what’s necessary to commit long-term to not building a nuclear weapon,\u201d Vance added.<\/p>\n

Vance rejects Obama comparison<\/p>\n

In a video shown to Vance<\/a> by the CBS interviewer, former US President Barack Obama is seen saying that any agreement that arises between the US and Iran is \u201cnot going to be significantly different, or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place and that we had worked for for a long stretch of time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"USUS President Barack Obama delivers a statement on Iran at the White House in Washington, January 17, 2016. (credit: REUTERS\/CARLOS BARRIA)<\/p>\n

Vance responded that Obama\u2019s claims are \u201cfundamentally not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go back to the Obama JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), what it did was it took an Iranian nuclear program that it accelerated. It basically bribed the Iranians to stop that program.<\/p>\n

The JCPOA was an Obama-led multilateral agreement between Iran and the US, UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany to limit Iran\u2019s nuclear development.<\/p>\n

Vance argued that Trump\u2019s administration is in a different position. \u201cThe Iranian nuclear program has been completely destroyed, and what we\u2019re saying is: make the long-term commitment to not rebuild it, and you will get the benefits that come with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vice president also noted that the Gulf States, whom he claims have been threatened by the Iranian regime for 47 years, \u201chated the JCPOA because they felt that it empowered Iran to be a bad regional actor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same countries, argued Vance, have called Trump\u2019s plan \u201camazing because it transforms the Middle East<\/a> in a way that makes them more peaceful and more prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Vice President JD Vance said that he is confident that Israel would join the agreement with Iran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[13058,34,9060,15314,232,16867,37,1096,2235,256],"class_list":["post-162240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-iaea","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-iran-negotiations","tag-iran-us-news","tag-iran-us-nuclear-talks","tag-israel","tag-jd-vance","tag-us-israel-iran","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116758311272923944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}