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Steve Witkoff: “Their regime had not given their negotiating team authority…”

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

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U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff details Iran negotiations prior to start of war

Published | Video Starts at 01:47

In other words, they were again miscalculating the success of Midnight Hammer, which was a total success. These are incontrovertible signs, among many other signs, sir, that Their regime had not given their negotiating team authority to make a deal required by you. We conferred with you and all the other members of your foreign policy Suzy Wiles, Pete Hegseth, the Chairman, Marco Rubio, JD Scott Besant, Chris Wright, John Radcliffe throughout all of these negotiations and we were repeatedly rebuffed on everything we asked for. (01:47–01:55)

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Asserts that the Iranian regime did not authorize their team to make a required deal.

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