Amos Hochstein
speaker
360 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 6 May
Amos Hochstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Iranians decided that we basically betrayed them because we negotiated in good faith over multi-years, reached an agreement on nuclear, and then the United States unilaterally got out of the deal.
And so as a result, they've never come back to the table in direct negotiations.
People take it for granted now that we're doing through Oman or Pakistan, but during Obama administration, John Kerry was negotiating directly with the foreign minister of Iran face-to-face.
We were enemies, but we were face-to-face.
We don't do that anymore.
So for the four years of Biden and the last year plus of Trump, it was done through intermediaries.
So when you hear that Jared Kushner or Steve Witkoff are negotiating with the Iranians, they're not.
They're talking to the Omanis who are talking, and it's like two different rooms, and these guys are going between two rooms.
Sometimes it was a glass wall.
We can see the Iranians.
They can see us.
That's right.
When President Trump said the other day, I delivered 15 points to the Iranians, then the Pakistanis said, we received the 15 points and we delivered them to Iranians, right?
It makes it sound like it's direct, but it's not actually direct.
Now, we have intelligence and we have all kinds of sources.
So we also test the waters, right?
I want to know when I'm negotiating,
I want to know if the dude I just talked to, A, are they really delivering the message?
If they are, how loyal are they to my message?
Because messengers are basically translators.
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