Mark Meadows, who served as White House chief of staff during President Donald Trump's first term, told Newsmax on Tuesday that he sees little chance Iran will come forward with a viable peace option in negotiations with the Trump administration.
"Quite frankly, a lot of us are very, very skeptical that they'll ever come to the table with a real deal," he told "The Record With Greta Van Susteren."
Meadows said Trump's team has given Iran plenty of options to wrap up negotiations.
"I think President Trump and his team, whether it's Jared Kushner and Steven Witkoff or the vice president and [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, they've gone the additional mile to try to make sure that everyone knows that they seek a diplomatic solution."
But, Meadows said, Iran is thinking differently.
"I'm afraid that the Iranians are looking at this as weakness, not as a position of diplomacy."
Meadows said if Iran is trying to squeeze out a deal to influence the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, it won't end well for the nation.
"They would be actually misreading the situation," he said. "This president, while certainly concerned with the midterms and wanting them to turn out in favor of the Republicans, he's not going to just take a bad deal because of it."
Meadows said Trump will talk only so long.
"I do think that what will happen is his patience will grow thin; and, quite frankly, he will say, 'Enough is enough,'" he said.
"And it won't be a Truth Social that they will be dealing with. They'll be dealing with incoming."
Meadows added that the surviving Iranian leadership involved in the talks should pay more attention to how Trump works.
"He will give a very long, long leash for diplomacy and the lack of taking action," he said. "But once you've reached the end of the leash, there's no going back."
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