Netanyahu at the U.S.-Iran talks

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(Partial transcript) There are some very interesting details coming out from members of parliament of Iran who were actually in the room. These are the best like our friend Professor Marandi, he was outside of the room. So people were telling him what was going on. So some of these guys, don’t forget the Iranian delegation was 71 people. So we still don’t know how many when when Aragchi and Vance were actually in the same room talking face to face. We don’t know how many Iranians. I would assume at least seven or eight because these people were and some of them are members of the security council. This guy who start leaking very discreetly some stuff is a parliament member. He said that in the beginning Aragchi and Vance there was a certain flow. It was a relatively adult conversation.

Soon guess who barges inside the room? Dumb and dumber. Heckle and Jackal, Tweedle Dee and Twiddle Dum and Kushner with messages from Netanyahu. And after that there was a phone call from Netanyahu to Vance. According to our member of parliament after that the whole thing started to derail.

I think this is all all of us need to know about it and the position of Vance was terrible. Well, to start with, can you imagine in the most important diplomatic day in the modern history of the United States and Iran in the past 47 years, the president of the United States was playing golf and then at night he went to a fucking UFC, whatever, with his secretary of state who should have been in the room. So, this means that they set Vance up.

They sent him on a mission impossible. Come on. The guy went to Yale Law School. How how how he didn’t see this thing coming? It’s unbelievable. They put him in the line of fire. He didn’t have any autonomy.

There are differences on how many calls from 6 to 12 to to Trump during the 15-hour negotiation process. And on top of it, direct interference from Netanyahu via Tweedle Dee and Twiddle Dum and the phone call. So, obviously they didn’t go there to negotiate. I put this in my my column is coming out in Russia, I think after our conversation, unfortunately. Basically the Americans went there to dictate not to negotiate.

There’s an extra little bit of information that came from another source. the whole uranium enrichment Kabuki was not the main thing.

He actually said that and then with Kushner and Witkoff the Americans wanted a cut, a very large cut on the toll booth. It was about money. Grifters. And this is what they are. They are a bunch of bloody grifters. Why do they send Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee to something so important? Because they want some money out of it. So obviously the whole thing had to collapse. And of course the degree of unpreparedness of the American delegations. The Iranians were, wow! Can you imagine that?

Only the um nuclear dossier in the Iranians, they had a file this thick, 120 pages with all the details underlined everywhere. So they they they had the whole all the dossiers on top of their hands and in written files all of them. The Americans arrived with two or three pages which they probably didn’t read somebody scribble for them, you know.

So, they were completely unprepared and dealing with an extremely well-prepared delegation. But the most incredible thing is that in the beginning at least there was some degree of dialogue.

Okay. Vance is not a grifter. At least we don’t know. But and he seems to have a brain. So it was in the beginning. Yeah. Okay. Tiny brain. But at least there was some measure of dialogue. And Aragchi is an extremely patient guy. He’s very cool, measured and patient. He listens. So obviously he was making an effort to listen to Vance.

But then the whole thing completely derailed which was expected. Our Pakistani friends, apart everything that we know about this Pakistani junta. Basically this is a this government is run by Field Marshall Munir who has Trump on speed dial, and it’s part of the industrial security intelligence complex comp complex in Pakistan. The people who put Imran Khan in jail we we all know.

But okay, credit to them they broke their backs to make this thing work. They worked like hell. And this is what I heard from Pakistan. I was doing a podcast with Pakistanis before talking to you guys. That was very interesting.

Behind the scenes, he told me a few things that he heard from the the Pakistani mediators, They were not the the architects of the whole thing. They were the gobetweens but as go-betweens. They did a great job.

There is a I don’t know you have if you have seen a photo there is uh the face of Mohammad Ishaq Dar, the Pakistani foreign minister He’s totally dejected, We cannot see the face of Vance but we see the face of Asim Munir (Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan), talking to Vance like you can see that he’s pissed. It’s like he’s saying you come to my country and you fuck us up in the middle of all that knowing from the beginning that you were just using us for who gave you the right to do this. This is what you read in Munir’s face. That’s very very impressive and that sums it all up I would say.

But they, and they keep they keep working 247. They say look maybe there’s going to be a second round. It could be here or maybe it could be somewhere else maybe in Qatar. But they’re still working for a second round of negotiations. Even though the end a as as you saw and the whole world saw that key phrase by Vance, they decided not to accept our terms…..