JD Vance confronted Benjamin Netanyahu in a tense phone call, accusing the Israeli leader of being overly optimistic about the chances of regime change in Iran.
The Vice President told the Israeli leader on Monday that many of his predictions about the war which he had sold to Donald Trump had not materialized.
Despite the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hardline factions have tightened their grip on power and the regime remains firmly in control.
‘Before the war, Bibi really sold it to the President as being easy, as regime change being a lot likelier than it was. And the VP was clear-eyed about some of those statements,’ a source told Axios.
Vance, who reportedly advised Trump against going to war with Iran, was appointed by the President to help lead negotiations to end the conflict.
A day after Vance’s call with Netanyahu, a Right-wing Israeli news outlet owned by GOP donor Miriam Adelson reported that the Vice President had yelled at Netanyahu over Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
White House officials, who described the story as false, began suspecting that Israelis planted it to try to smear Vance.
An Israeli official denied that Netanyahu had planted the story and said his office issued a full denial when approached by reporters.
The Daily Mail has contacted the Vice President’s office for comment.
BREAKING: This is escalating fast. These latest updates spell doom.
• Saudi Arabia urging U.S. to ramp up attacks — may join the war
• Iran just turned back 2 Chinese state-owned container ships in the Strait of Hormuz — despite China being on the “approved” list
• Tehran…— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 27, 2026
Ground operations will add another premium of $20-30/bbl and current production shut-ins >10mbpd lasting another 4 weeks will put another $20-$50 on top of that as well
Once importing countries start to face broader energy shortages, they will start bidding whatever they have to…
— Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) March 27, 2026
JD Vance reportedly went after Netanyahu over how the Iran war was sold to Trump, especially the idea that regime change would be easy. Whether every detail of the call is confirmed or not, the bigger picture is already obvious, expectations and reality on Iran are not matching up and now people inside the same alliance are arguing about it out loud. Israel denies parts of the reporting and is pushing back on the narrative, but the fact this kind of tension is even leaking into public view says a lot.