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Steve Witkoff: “Plenty of good, decent, innocent people died [in Iran].”

Featuring: Steve Witkoff, Republican | U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East | National

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U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff: We're closer to peace deals than in years

Published | Video Starts at 07:29

Were you surprised there were no college protests around the murders in Iran? Not the U.S. nothing surprises me like that. I think sometimes the world's a little bit upside down. There should be protests because Plenty of good, decent, innocent people died [in Iran]. And you know, they were, they were mowed down. They had no ability to defend themselves. They were just out there expressing their right to protest and they were killed. (07:29–07:34)

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