Ryan Grim
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Exactly.
Iran, to this day, has still not responded to the U.S.
So there's a lot of WhatsApp being used for these communications.
If you use WhatsApp, you know, you get those two little blue checks if it's been received and you're like, OK, they got it.
Like, are they going to respond here?
And so Witkoff has been left on these two blue checks for like more than a week now.
Now he has just sent, he's like, F it.
And he just sends like an entire ceasefire proposal that Iran has not formally responded to yet.
Although the Wall Street Journal has a story about Iran's response.
This is literally developing as we talk.
Let's get into the โ so the reporting from โ it's important to understand that the reporting first emerged out of Israel and from Israeli media.
And I was talking to my colleague Jeremy Scahill this morning.
He was saying that we should take the specifics with a grain of salt, according to his sources in Tehran.
But it is indeed true.
And actually, we can put up with Jeremy's post here.
It is indeed true that the U.S.
has sent...
Iran has sent an offer sheet, basically, for a 30-day ceasefire.
Iran is reviewing it.
Iran is extraordinarily skeptical of the seriousness of the United States because twice they have entered into negotiations together.