Branko Marcetic, Not so diplomatic: Witkoff, Kushner, and Trump’s march to war in Iran

Branko Marcetic Reports indicate that two of the president’s key advisers offered misleading advice that helped push the US toward conflict Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to the Middle East who President Donald Trump tasked with negotiating a deal with Iran, does not sound very much like a diplomat lately. “There’s almost no stopping them, they have an endless supply of [enriched uranium],” Witkoff told Sean Hannity the day the war began. “They thought they could strong-arm us. … It was very, very clear that it was — it was going to be impossible, probably…