The Iranians asked for JD Vance to negotiate with Qalibaf and Aragchi, and President Trump appears to have been happy to send him. We all know that Kushner and Witkoff have failed to extricate America from this phase of the Iran War, but somehow we'll blame the war’s lightweight America-first opponent.

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