Chronological coverage of every Litigation Logic post tagged Steve Witkoff.
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Jun 8, 2026Intelligence
Europe Steps Up as Lead Broker in Ukraine Peace Talks
Dispatch Washington · June 8, 2026 Germany's government publicly declared June 8 that European powers are prepared to assume the leading role in negotiations to end Russia's war against Ukraine, explicitly framing the shift as a continua…
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May 29, 2026Intelligence
Rubio Manages Iran War Exposure as 2028 Succession Race Takes Shape
Dispatch Washington · May 29, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio has navigated the now three-month-old U.S.-Iran war in a manner that distinguishes him from other senior administration figures more directly associated with the conflict,…
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May 28, 2026Intelligence
Gaza Board of Peace World Bank Fund Holds Zero Dollars Four Months After Launch
Dispatch Washington · May 28, 2026 Four months after the Trump administration unveiled the Board of Peace, the World Bank-administered fund established to finance Gaza reconstruction has received no donor contributions. The fund, adminis…
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May 21, 2026Intelligence
Iran Supreme Leader Orders Enriched Uranium Stockpile to Remain in Country
Dispatch Washington · May 22, 2026 Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has issued a directive prohibiting the transfer of the country's near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile abroad, two senior Iranian officials told Reuters, placing a …
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May 19, 2026Intelligence
Gulf States and Hawks Contest the Pace of Trump’s Iran Diplomacy
Dispatch Washington · May 20, 2026 President Donald Trump postponed a planned military strike on Iran, set for Tuesday, May 19, after direct appeals from three Gulf heads of state, exposing a sharp fault line between regional allies pres…
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May 18, 2026Intelligence
Trump Suspends Planned Iran Strike After Gulf Ally Intervention, Keeps Military on Alert
Dispatch Washington · May 18, 2026 President Donald Trump announced May 18 that he had called off a military strike on Iran scheduled for that day after the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates urged him to allow …
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May 17, 2026Intelligence
U.S.-Brokered Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Extended 45 Days as Dual-Track Talks Advance
Dispatch Washington · May 17, 2026 The United States announced on May 15 that the Israel-Lebanon cessation of hostilities, originally established April 16, will run an additional 45 days. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott confir…
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May 17, 2026Intelligence
Trump Signals Openness to Time-Limited Iran Nuclear Moratorium, Dropping Permanent-Ban Stance
Dispatch Washington · May 17, 2026 President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on May 16 that a 20-year moratorium on Iran's nuclear program would be sufficient for a deal, a public break from his administration's longstan…
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May 16, 2026Intelligence
U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Stall as Hormuz Ceasefire Frays
Dispatch Washington · May 16, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Rome that the United States is awaiting an Iranian response to its latest proposal to end the ongoing conflict, even as a fresh military exchange in the …
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May 16, 2026Intelligence
Ukraine’s Top Negotiator Travels to U.S. as Donbas Standoff Stalls Peace Process
Dispatch Washington · May 16, 2026 Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council and Kyiv's chief negotiator, departed for the United States this week for another round of direct talks with the Trump adminis…
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Apr 30, 2026Intelligence
Merz Breaks With Washington Over Iran War Strategy and Negotiating Posture
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz publicly accused the Trump administration on April 27 of entering the Iran war without a viable exit strategy and of being outmaneuvered by Tehran at the negotiating table, marking his sharpest departure …
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Apr 30, 2026Intelligence
Iran Rejects Nuclear Sequencing Demand, Proposes Phased Hormuz Deal
Iran transmitted a new proposal to the Trump administration offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the ongoing conflict in exchange for the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports, while deferring nuclear negotiation…
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Apr 24, 2026Intelligence
Hegseth Pledges Open-Ended Hormuz Blockade Tied to Iran Nuclear Deal
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared April 24 that the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain in force indefinitely, framing its duration as contingent on Iran accepting terms for the verifiable abandonment of its nuc…
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Apr 24, 2026Intelligence
Witkoff and Kushner Return to Islamabad as Iran Talks Resume Under Ceasefire
Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and White House adviser Jared Kushner are departing for Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday for a second round of negotiations with Iranian representatives, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed …