Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that JD Vance called him immediately after negotiations with Iran collapsed, as the Israeli prime minister warned that Donald Trump’s ceasefire could unravel into all-out war.
The Israeli prime minister held a meeting with his top cabinet officials where he detailed how US negotiations collapsed with the Iranians in Pakistan.
Netanyahu’s comments came just hours before Trump’s naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is set to go into effect.
‘I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad,’ Netanyahu continued. ‘He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations.’
‘The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran’s blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations.’
Netanyahu said the collapse in negotiations was triggered after Tehran failed to reopen key access points in the vital oil passageway and refused to commit to ending nuclear enrichment.
The two-week ceasefire brokered by Trump could unravel at any moment, Netanyahu warned, saying: ‘The ceasefire is like a coin — it can flip very quickly.’
Trump is reportedly weighing a return to military strikes on Iran if the naval blockade fails to push the regime back to negotiations, according to Axios. The blockade is part of his broader strategy to deny Tehran leverage over the waterway and force concessions.
The Vance-led peace talks over the weekend saw US officials push the Iranian delegation to freeze all uranium enrichment and hand over their Uranium stockpile.
