Mark Dubowitz

I need to clarify when you mischaracterize.

Sure.

A couple things I think were interesting, what Scott said, and I agree certainly with some of it.

I mean, the first thing is, I do believe President Trump has negotiated in good faith.

I mean, he sent Steve Witkoff, his chief negotiator, for five rounds of negotiations since he came into office.

The second is, I mean, we can keep going around in circles, but the fact of the matter is, I do believe that Iran and Iran-backed terrorist organizations have

since 1979, killed and tried to kill and maim Americans and taking them hostage.

I think it's important for me, again, to put that on the record.

But where I agree with Scott is, and it's interesting, and I don't know if Khamenei has changed.

He's 86 years old.

He's been in power since 1989.

And there's a little bit of history that I think is really interesting, Lex.

It was 1988, and Iran and Iraq had fought this brutal eight-year war, a million people dead.

And the United States accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger airline.

The United States offered to pay compensation and apologized.

The Iranians didn't believe it.

They didn't believe we could accidentally do that.

They thought we were going to be intervening militarily on behalf of Saddam.

So Khamenei, who's not the supreme leader at the time, he was the Iranian president, he and Rafsanjani, they go to Khomeini and they say, Mr. Ayatollah,

We got to sue for peace with the Iraqis because the Americans are intervening and we cannot fight the Americans.