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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.”

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

He's clearly losing it, but this is also clearly propaganda from a country engaged in a war. Anyone who takes this seriously is a fool. Trump is a vacant turnip, but we can asses that for ourselves. Don't be stupid. Of course they will say anything they can to smear him. They don't need to. He's already covered in shit.

Let's hope his derangement leads to a direct attack on israel when they refuse to honor whatever peace deal we make to pretend we weren't pantsed by Iran.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 24 points 11 hours ago

Using psychology to understand how to come to terms with a narcissistic shit baby doesn't seem that implausible to me.

[–] aquovie@lemmy.cafe 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Just because it's propaganda doesn't mean it's untrue. The story tracks and changes nothing I believe about the US's tyrannical tangerine toddler.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I agree. Yes it may well be true but we really can't trust what they say

[–] munkee@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Is there any chance that the administration isn't making bets on whether Iran waits for the check to clear before invalidating the 'deal'?