Jason Greenblatt
@GreenblattJD · US administration & envoys
Jason Greenblatt is a former US Middle East envoy and one of the Abraham Accords' negotiators.
Punishing Jews for living and trading in the land where Jewish history began more than 3,000 years ago is a terrible decision, and calling it a legal opinion is a farce. No Palestinian will be better off for it, and it will not move the Israeli-Palestinian conflict one inch. What it does is weaken an important intelligence partner of the United Kingdom in the middle of the war against the Iranian regime. Tehran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis could not have asked for a better gift. @jewishinsider @MatthewShea__ https://t.co/DADJdyBLTd
Iran warned that taking the Ali al-Taher ridge would mean a large-scale attack. Israel took it anyway. So far, silence. Whatever Tehran does next, its red line did not protect the position it helped Hezbollah build over decades. What that tells us: https://t.co/h2iGp0bpj7 https://t.co/Ma85FpoQA7
Syria just showed Iran the price of admission. Inspectors get access. They see the sites. They count the material. And they come back to verify it again. Damascus is doing that now. Tehran refuses. That should be the standard for any Iran deal. My latest How to Watch: https://t.co/w30FR6kzrY
Forget the June framework. After the latest U.S. strikes, Iranian retaliation and Tehran’s threats against Hormuz, the price of a deal has gone up. The question is what Iran must now concede to get an agreement President Trump considers worth making. My latest in How to Watch: https://t.co/AeIixv81zs
Pezeshkian says Iran will "immediately reciprocate" if the US returns to the June deal. To some it may sound like an opening. It's not. The empty sentence commits Iran to nothing. The people who actually hold power in Tehran have not moved an inch. https://t.co/fWLcz40RdN
No One in Tehran Can Say Yes https://t.co/Qta45vtJRF https://t.co/DIaHHa7Tgk
Pakistan says its meetings in Tehran made “significant progress.” Maybe. Doubtful. But as President Trump tightens the economic screws, Pakistan and Oman are both talking to different parts of the Iranian system. The question remains: is anyone in Tehran actually authorized and willing to make a deal? And can they deliver the deal President @realDonaldTrump requires? My latest in How to Watch: https://t.co/4y6HyWPJIE
President @realDonaldTrump 's objective is to choke off every source of revenue sustaining Iran’s regime until Tehran stands alone. The governments and companies keeping it alive must choose between Iran and the American system. “The clock just started ticking.” https://t.co/ArkFIwnaji
The most important part of today's @USTreasury announcement was not aimed only at Tehran. It was aimed at the governments that have kept Tehran solvent for years. The stated objective of @SecScottBessent is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone. What makes today additive to the four months of Operation Economic Fury is breadth and timing. The measures reach technology, gold, aviation, shipping, banking and digital assets. Each country still doing this business has been given a defined window to shut it down, with enforcement to follow if it does not. Economic engagement of any kind with this regime now brings a severe American response. For years, governments treated quiet commerce with Tehran as a manageable cost of doing business, handled discreetly and denied publicly. That era is over. The escalation is pointed at the right targets. Iran has absorbed sanctions for four decades and learned to live inside them. Its enablers have never been asked to absorb anything, and the message to them today was that they should not test the United States. Asked what the President is after, Secretary Bessent described it as the economic asphyxiation of the regime. The campaign is meant to gather force with every day that follows, and Secretary Bessent said more sanctions are coming shortly. The countries still deciding whether to comply are not choosing once. They will be choosing again next week, and the week after that, against pressure that keeps rising. These countries have been warned. They should follow the lead of the United Arab Emirates.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is reportedly calling for an end to the war with the United States. The question is whether he has enough power to convince Iran’s leadership to take that path. I highly doubt it. The regime is deeply divided. Pezeshkian is arguing for an exit while senior military figures call for escalation and the IRGC continues to amass power. My assessment: even if Pezeshkian wants the kind of deal President Trump expects (also very doubtful), as of now he cannot deliver anything close to it. Still, something to watch closely before Washington’s sanctions announcement Monday.
@jaredkushner spent close to a decade building trust with leaders across our Arab allies & Israel. Relationships like that are rare. The president's trust is rarer. Almost nobody has both. Some in Washington & the media want him off the file. I disagree. https://t.co/4ftaW5dDHw
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