https://www.frontpagemag.com/steve-witkoff-and-those-iranian-nukes/
My guess is, we will know soon enough whether the firing of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz heralds a shift in Trump policy, or was merely a personnel decision.
Trump hinted it was the latter just days after Waltz’s deputy, Alex Wong, invited a journalist to an encrypted Signal chat.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on April 3, the President applauded his national security team for their “big success with the Houthis,” but added this: “Always, we’re going to let go of people we don’t like, or people we don’t think can do the job, or people who may have loyalties to somebody else.”
And the fact that Waltz was not exiled to Outer Slobbovia but sent instead to New York as our United Nations representative, argues that the President continues to respect Waltz and his bold advocacy of America First positions.
That is not the case with Steve Witkoff, one of several people whose names have been floated as Waltz’s successor. Remember that during his first negotiating session with the Iranians Witkoff said it was just fine and dandy for them to retain their uranium enrichment capabilities, just as long as they limited it to 3.67%.
That is like handing them the keys to a dual-motor Tesla and expecting them to keep it below 30 mpH.
Witkoff was summoned back to Washington after he made that statement and was given a very public dressing down by the entire national security cabinet, after which he “remembered” that the President himself had said the Iranians had to totally “dismantle” their nuclear programs, just like Qaddafi did in Libya.
Witkoff is one of many Trump supporters who, while well-meaning, have zero experience or understanding of foreign policy. Just recently, for example, you had Charlie Kirk opining on X that Trump cabinet members and think tankers who opposed a Witkoff-negotiated Iran deal were evil “neo-cons” and “anti-MAGA.”
That kind of talk simply ignores the physics of uranium enrichment, as well as the history of Iran’s forty-year slow walk to a robust nuclear weapons capability.
Charlie Kirk was following on the heels of Tucker Carlson’s hour-long interview with Witkoff in which he blasted the “tremendous pressure for a war on Iran” from the Washington establishment, and heaped praise on Witkoff for his “hope” that dialogue with Iran could clear up “misconceptions” and lead to a full return of Iran to the “league of nations.”