Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.
“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,” Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.
“Almost quite clinically, they said they began to see this process yielding results as they worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”
The next question: so why are they saying this? It seems to me that Iran values weakening the US more than they do a peace deal, even a lopsided $300B one. So Trump has a temper tantrum and goes back to bombing Iran. Through some twisted logic, that’s good for Iran.
Unironically, the people leaking this want the war. Could be Iranian hardliners, could be made up whole cloth. Hell, could be mossad agents that have infiltrated the Iranian government, hoping to reignite the war for Israel. I have no doubt that this was written to reignite the war; we’ll just have to see what comes out of it.