Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that any peace agreement between Washington and Tehran would be “a home run for the American people,” regardless of whether Israel supports it.

In an interview on Fox News, Vance said the United States and Israel “have a lot of shared interests, but we also have some situations where our interests diverge.” While Israel had its own objectives, he said, Washington’s central aim was narrower: ensuring that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.

“Israel may like that, they may not like that,” Vance said of the prospective agreement. “But fundamentally, we think this is in the best interest of the United States of America.”

The vice president argued that any deal Trump reached would be stronger than the 2015 nuclear accord struck under President Barack Obama, which Trump abandoned in 2018. The earlier agreement, Vance said, lacked a rigorous inspections regime to guarantee Iran could never build a weapon. He stressed that long-term verification would be central to any new arrangement, calling it “a tall order” but one the administration was positioned to meet. Asked whether Iranian negotiators were trying to play the United States, Vance replied that “everybody’s always trying to play everybody.”

Vance’s remarks came as Trump told reporters in New York, after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals, that the two sides were “in the final throes” of what he called a very good deal. Pressed on timing, the president said an agreement was “two or three days” away and predicted the Strait of Hormuz would reopen immediately upon signing.

Trump also pushed back on reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had defied him by striking back after Iran’s renewed missile barrage on Sunday night. “If I tell him to do something, he does it,” Trump said, according to the BBC, adding that Iran’s missiles had already been launched and Israeli forces were already mobilizing by the time the two leaders spoke.

Netanyahu reportedly called off a larger strike on Iran after Trump warned that Israel would be left to act alone.

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