Hello John and Doves,
Greta Van Susteren interviewed US Special Envoy Steve
Witkoff about his meetings with the Iranian Foreign
Minister. This is an inside look into the
'negotiations' - gives us a look at the Iranian side.
They will lie, deceive to get what they want.
This is on the Newsmax You Tube channel, dated March
10, 2026:
(my notes)
Steve is the Chief negotiator. He meet with Iran
before Midnight Hammer, last June, six times. After
Operation Hammer he met with them three separate
times. With Jared Kushner. There was no palpable
evidence that Iran wanted to negotiate.
Iran started one meeting with, 'they had the
inalienable right to enrich'....(later President Trump
responded to Steve with 'we have the inalienable right to
stop you from enriching.') That's how the negotiations
began. A strange way to start the 'negotiations'.
At one point the US offered Iran 'free fuel for ten
years' - enough to power the peaceful things they claimed
they wanted to do. Their response was awkward...'we
don't need you to do that.' What we offered was
enriched uranium that could not be further enriched...for a
nuclear weapon. "This (offer) did not work for them
for the obvious reason," said Witkoff.
Foreign Minister of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, plus his
staff was there at one recent meeting. (there were other
meetings with this FM last year too) Witkoff said it
didn't look like Araghchi was 'empowered' to negotiate for
Iran. Witkoff told him it looked like he wanted to
communicate to the US indirectly, speaking through an
interlocutor who would pass messages. Araghchi did not
have permission to talk to the US directly on the telephone
- 'maybe he could text the US'. These negotiations
required round the clock talking if this was going to be
settled. The FM of Iran never left the room to 'talk
to his people' during the talks...which was odd.
Greta asked Steve if the meetings were cordial with
the Foreign Minister/Iran? She said the FM has been
taunting the US in tweets now about our gas prices.
Witkoff said they had a 'very aggressive confrontation with
him in the last session.' After the US presented their
points to Iran, the FM started "screaming and yelling";
Steve said he was calm and asked if the US should
leave...the FM settled down, and said 'no'.
In the first session that they had with Iran,
Iran ''acknowledged, even boasted, that they had 460 kg of
60% enriched uranium''. "This is roughly one week to
ten days away from 90% weapons grade." This is a
statistical fact." This is about 11 bombs worth of
material. This is how that session
began. Later the FM said that concerning these
negotiations 'we will not let you take diplomatically what
you couldn't militarily." He was contesting the fact
we had destroyed most of Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, "which
of course we did". Steve thinks he was referring to
the fact that Iran manufacturers their own equipment which
in itself is insidious and dangerous.
There was no reason to bring the 60% up
to WGU unless you wanted to make a nuclear weapon.
Iran had every intention of making a nuclear weapon - this
was very clear. And why would you throw out the IAEA
inspectors if your intentions were peaceful?
Steve took the FM's words as a warning. Even a
small amount of 60% enriched uranium could be taken to
weapons grade and so Iran would get their hands on a
weapon. He was "almost warning us that he might in
fact, have a weapon." "So when people say
there was no evidence of a weapon, there actually was
plenty of evidence that he was either positioning towards
getting a weapon, or had a weapon already, or had
a plan to get at a weapon."
Steve and Jard Kushner were looking for good faith
negotiations. At the end of the three recent sessions
- they saw no good faith from Iran. They were not
ready to make a deal.
Iran refused to talk about the missiles. And
that was a 'red line' for the US. The nuclear threat
is the most existential, but the missiles are close behind.
Trump said that Iran had to cut back on their offensive
ballistic missiles. A firm NO from Iran.
There were numerous indications that Iran was not
going to negotiate in good faith. At one point, Iran
presented a paper with their side of the negotiations; a
paper Steve was not allowed to keep...Steve and Jared read
it and quickly saw it was full of ways Iran could circumvent
all of the points the US presented.
Steve is returning to Israel next week.
(end notes)
Sean Hannity interviewed Steve Witkoff on his radio
podcast today, March 11, and Steve covered the same basic
points.
I'll add to the above interview on Newsmax, it was an
interesting comment the Foreign Minister of Iran made - that
they weren't going to let the US take from them in
negotiations, what the US couldn't take from them
militarily...to me that confirms we did not
"completely and totally obliterate' Iran's key nuclear
enrichment facilities...We were told that "the Iranian
regime's nuclear capabilities had been obliterated"....we
did not destroy Natanz, Fodor or Isfahan, imo....how could
Iran be one week away from a nuke if we destroyed their
nuclear sites? (I've written several letters about
Midnight Hammer.)
This is the same Foreign Minister (Abbas Araghchi) who
said that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is
still alive "as far as I know". He said two
commanders died, but senior officials in the regime had
survived including the head of the judiciary and the
parliament speaker." Which is the lie?
We
cannot loose sight of the fact that Iranians are Muslims,
specifically Shia Muslims. They will lie and deceive to
get what they want. Their religion does not support a
democratic Iran, nor will it support a leader the West picks
for them. They have Imams and Mullahs and the believe of
a coming Mahdi who will set up a global caliphate. And
Israel is in the way of that happening. That's why they
chant 'death to America' and 'death to Israel'...the Mahdi
cannot return if Israel exists.
What
percentage are fanatics about this? Enough. They
are not Sunni Muslims, they have an apocalyptic
ideology. Iran will not move from their hate of Israel
(or America) and wanting to destroy her.
The
prophecies are set. God's Word will be fulfilled.
Pray
for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance