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Robert Malley

Robert Malley

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Oct 13, 2026

Rory StewartHOST
44:19
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Rory StewartHOST
44:19
Rob Malley, and he was talking about, you know, twenty-five-person teams right in the middle of the Middle East peace process, all of them with doctorates, all of them speaking local languages fluently, all of them intensely involved in the technocratic thing.
Rory StewartHOST
44:31
Now, basically, it's Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, occasionally JD Vance flying around with four or five staffers, and it...
Rory StewartHOST
44:41
So how do you get an Iran deal on that basis?
Rory StewartHOST
44:19
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Rory StewartHOST
44:19
Rob Malley, and he was talking about, you know, twenty-five-person teams right in the middle of the Middle East peace process, all of them with doctorates, all of them speaking local languages fluently, all of them intensely involved in the technocratic thing.
Rory StewartHOST
44:31
Now, basically, it's Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, occasionally J.D. Vance flying around with four or five staffers, and it...
Rory StewartHOST
44:41
So how do you get an Iran deal on that basis?
Yasir QadhiHOST
10:03
India there, much of Africa there, South Africa there, everything, just cut everything off.
Yasir QadhiHOST
10:07
They just realized, "We can't do this." And a part of what they cut off was the, uh, uh, the, uh, mandate that was given to them, uh, to control this area, and they threw it at the United Nations and said, "Hey, guys, you take care of this, and we have a plan," and that plan is eventually became the UN Partition Plan.
Yasir QadhiHOST
10:24
So one of the first resolutions of the United N- United Nations, look at the number, 181.
Yasir QadhiHOST
10:29
Goes really early.
John LipskyPANELIST
10:09
Uh, look, the, um, they have been clear about what they think should be done, and they, what they think should be done is to cut off funding, uh, to support the Iran war, to adopt war powers resolutions, to, uh, end hostilities and remove troops from the region.
John LipskyPANELIST
10:28
Uh, Phil Gordon, Robert Malley, Chris Murphy, John Feiner, all these guys are saying, "Take whatever deal you can get.
John LipskyPANELIST
10:36
You know, it's going to include Iranian control of the strait.
John LipskyPANELIST
10:39
That's better than continuing the war." So the Demo- the policy of the opposition is to strike a deal, cut your losses, give Iran some kind of control over the strait in the war.
Scott HortonGUEST
25:59
But the m- the most important part of it, and we'll get back to AQ in a second 'cause there's a lot of it, but the, the most important part here, again, we're talking March 2015, Obama says, "Okay, fine.
Scott HortonGUEST
26:10
Go ahead." There's also a article by Robert Malley.
Scott HortonGUEST
26:13
I'm sure you're familiar with him.
Scott HortonGUEST
26:14
He got in trouble in the Biden years for being a negotiator.
John PodhoretzHOST
54:09
"... spent my, the end of my presidency doing everything I possibly could to create the conditions for a Palestinian state, and it was the Palestinians who said no.
John PodhoretzHOST
54:20
It was not Israel who said no." He has staffers like the egregious and villainous Robert Malley, who worked for him, who have been spending 25 years re- attempting to revise the history of the last months of the Clinton presidency to say that Israel was the reason that they couldn't come up with a final deal at Camp David in 2000.
John PodhoretzHOST
54:42
And Clinton himself says that is not true.
John PodhoretzHOST
54:46
And if he wanted to be in good with the current world of the r- of the Democratic Party, he would say it was true.
Roger CarstensGUEST
9:46
We're trying to get a deal with the Russians, but the Russians aren't being very helpful.
Roger CarstensGUEST
9:49
They're not necessarily being good faith negotiators.
Roger CarstensGUEST
9:52
And the Russians were stunned because we had never done that before.
Roger CarstensGUEST
9:55
Now they do it.

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Roger CarstensGUEST
33:31
They're tough people.
Roger CarstensGUEST
33:32
They're successful.
Roger CarstensGUEST
33:32
They're great negotiators.
Roger CarstensGUEST
33:34
But when you show up and in your brain start going through a traditional Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy or Harvard negotiation, well, number one, it's not translating.
Brian KatulisHOST
15:54
International Crisis Group.
Andrew TablerGUEST
15:54
Right, with Rob Malley.
Brian KatulisHOST
15:55
Yeah.
Andrew TablerGUEST
15:56
And I had signed with them, and I came to Washington to interview people, and I went with Rob to the Syrian embassy to meet Imad Mustafa, who was then the Syrian embassy and watchdog for the Syrians-
Andrew TablerGUEST
16:13
He says hello.
Andrew TablerGUEST
16:14
We sit down.
Andrew TablerGUEST
16:16
S- Mustafa's there, I'm here, Rob Malley's over there, and then we're going through, Rob's saying, "Well, Andrew's writing this report for the adminis- you know, incoming administration." It was the incoming Obama administration when we met.
Brian KatulisHOST
16:26
Right.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
60:43
Let's name names.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
60:45
Somebody like a Rob Malley, right? He was Joe Biden's special envoy for Iran.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
60:49
We know he talks to the Iranians.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
60:52
He's been friendly with Iranian leaders like Javad Zarif and others for a long, long time.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
61:37
I mean, it's just amazing that they can even think in their brains there's anything like this going on.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
61:42
But the Iranians read our press because the press covers what the Senate Democrats say.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
61:47
And then they hear from the Trita Parsons, the Rob Malley's other people saying, oh, this could work.
Rich GoldbergGUEST
61:52
This could work.
Charlie RoseHOST
35:55
Well, he was one of the negotiators, the lead negotiator
Bret StephensGUEST
35:58
was Rob Malley who was willing to bend as far forward towards Iranian demands as I think any American negotiator was.
Bret StephensGUEST
36:11
I don't think the Iranians even deign to meet with American negotiators face to face.
Bret StephensGUEST
36:17
The degree of contempt that the Iranian showed at the negotiating table, and I'm talking here with the Biden administration, not the Trump administration, was astounding.

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