Steve Witkoff: “We thought that if they were sensible in Iran, they would…”

“But we had success and that sort of propelled us to, you know, to think that we'd have success in Russia, Ukraine. We actually think we're going to, we're going to, we're going to have a successful conclusion to that. We thought that if they were sensible in Iran, they would take the diplomatic overtures we made to them. We made them some very compelling offers. But, you know, the dignity thing stopped it.” (49:57–50:04)

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