*[https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/tone-down-the-rhetoric-say-us-officials "Tone Down the Rhetoric!" Say US Officials Who Want to Destroy All of Iranian Civilization].
*[https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/tone-down-the-rhetoric-say-us-officials "Tone Down the Rhetoric!" Say US Officials Who Want to Destroy All of Iranian Civilization].
*[https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/iranian-leaders-are-not-divided-the Iranian Leaders Are Not Divided… The Trump Administration Is].
*[https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/iranian-leaders-are-not-divided-the Iranian Leaders Are Not Divided… The Trump Administration Is].
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:"[[Iran]] has total disdain for [[Trump]]’s Special Envoy [[Steve Witkoff]] and views him as both oblivious of [[diplomatic]] processes and totally [[ignorant]] of [[technical]] issues. [[Kushner]] is viewed by Iran as [[Israel]]’s man at the table. Iran, the senior official said, does not see any reason to deal with these two without a figure like [[Vice President JD Vance]] present."