'Go to hell': Vance lashes out at reported 'Israeli'-backed campaign targeting Iran peace deal

• US Vice President JD Vance accused "certain elements" within the 'Israeli' government of funding a campaign to undermine the Trump administration's negotiations with Iran.
• Vance said he would put "Americans first" and rejected what he described as foreign efforts to influence US policy.

US Vice President JD Vance has accused "certain elements" within the 'Israeli' government of backing a well-funded influence campaign aimed at sabotaging the Trump administration's ongoing negotiations with Iran.

Speaking during a three-hour appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Vance said he had been the target of what he described as a coordinated online campaign over his role in efforts to secure a peace agreement with Tehran.

Referring to a recent Time magazine investigation, Vance said the report detailed a foreign influence campaign allegedly financed by 'Israeli' actors to sway supporters of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement against a potential ceasefire agreement.

"You have seen this very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal," Vance said.

He also claimed that individuals involved in the campaign had received payments through former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who he alleged had worked with "certain elements" inside the 'Israeli' government.

"A bunch of people who have quite literally 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," Vance said.

"Go to hell"

Vance argued that critics of the negotiations wanted military confrontation with Iran to continue indefinitely and defended the administration's diplomatic approach.

"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, my response to that is: Go to hell," he said.

"I'm going to do what I have to do for the American people. I represent Americans first."

Brad Parscale denied Vance's accusations, saying his firm's work had been publicly disclosed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and was launched years earlier to combat antisemitism, not to influence US policy on Iran.

"Claims that I attacked the administration or the peace deal are false," Parscale said, adding that there was "not a single shred of evidence" that he had acted against the administration.

Vance: Disagreements with 'Israel' are inevitable

Despite his criticism, Vance said he was referring only to specific factions within the 'Israeli' government and acknowledged that others support the diplomatic process.

He stressed that while the United States and 'Israel' share important strategic interests, US foreign policy should be guided by American interests rather than foreign lobbying.

"We are going to have disagreements with them; we are going to have agreements with them," Vance said. "But what bothers me is when American leadership allows that influence to affect their judgment."