Hello and welcome to another live episode of Real Politics. I am your host, Phyllis Madaad.

Today, obviously, we are going to be talking about the escalation between the United States and Iran

and where things seem to be headed. As usual, this is a live episode, so if at any time you want to come in and ask

questions or whatever, please do. Very, very welcome to. I love answering your questions.

Let's start with what Steve Whitkoff said a couple of days ago. Basically, going back to the mantra

that Iran is a week away from making a

nuclear weapon. Now, for those of you with a short memory, the Israelis have been saying that the

Iranians are a few months away, a few weeks away, a few days away, from being able to make a nuclear weapon

since the mid-90s. So this isn't a new mantra. However, the significance of it is that it's coming

from Steve Whitkoff. For those of you who don't remember, Steve Whitkoff is a real estate developer

from New York, who's friends with Donald Trump,

and who, along with Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has pretty much taken over

negotiating on behalf of Trump in Gaza, in Russia, Ukraine, and with Iran.

So he's sort of become a one-man show State Department

bypassing the existing structures of power.

And the fact that he's saying that the Iranians are a week away

from building a bomb is pretty significant.

Now, finally enough, even the Jerusalem Post

didn't seem to believe him.

When Steve Whitkoff made that statement saying that they could be away from a week away from making a bomb,

the comment from the Jerusalem Post was, though the envoy left out that Iran currently has no access to its material, the nuclear material, no machines to enrich it, and no weapons program to use it for any operational purpose.

So the Jerusalem Post doesn't believe Steve Whitkoff, meaning that he's saying this to build up pressure on both

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