Rahm Emanuel: Trump’s Military Action Against Iran Led to No Trust, Without Trust the U.S. Has No Capacity to Negotiate in Good Faith

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EMANUEL: "A Persian culture that is built on the ethos of the merchant and the market, they will negotiate and be endless about negotiating process. So there‘s no deal, given how the Iranians are operating, and they know something about negotiations and they have a leverage point, which is the Strait of Hormuz. And again, as I said, you and I have talked before about this, Anderson, we went in to deal or we — the legitimacy or the logic behind the war, rather, was to stop them from acquiring the capacity for a nuclear weapon. And they discovered they had a nuclear option called the Strait of Hormuz. And they have that leverage, and they‘re using it. And I don‘t think either party — and most importantly, I‘m more worried about our side on this — is negotiating, because the second piece of this, the president in two separate negotiations started military action against the Iranians. So there‘s no trust. And when you have no trust, you have no capacity to actually negotiate with good faith to get to a conclusion, regardless of where the other side‘s position is."