Steve Witkoff

I won't comment on the intelligence picture, but I can tell you that there's reason to believe that they, given the opportunity, will return to enrichment one day.

It would be good if progress was made on Thursday.

And I would say that the Iranian insistence on not discussing ballistic missiles is a big, big problem.

I'll leave it at that.

So there was an incident at sea.

So we do have constant contact with them at the Coast Guard level, where they notify the U.S.

Coast Guard on a variety of things, including migrants and so forth.

The president asked me that this morning, and he's I don't want to use the word frustrated.

It's almost because he understands he's got plenty of alternatives.

But it's curious.

He's curious as to why they haven't.

I don't want to use the word capitulated, but why they haven't capitulated.

Why under this sort of pressure with the amount of sea power, naval power that we have over there, why they haven't come to us and said, we profess that we don't want a weapon, so here's what we're prepared to do.

And yet it's hard to sort of get them to that place.

Benjamin Netanyahu's made no secret about his doubts that Iran can be trusted, and he voiced it to Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Oman last week.

But he came to Washington to push President Trump personally on Israel's demands that any deal with Iran ends all uranium enrichment, removes stockpiles, ends ballistic missile production, and ends Iran's support for proxy militias in the

envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kirshner, were there.

They were communicating with Iran's foreign minister.

but through al-Mani officials.

Now, Iran says these talks were lengthy and intensive, but really the most important thing is that they met at all because it's really given breathing room to regional tension.