Brett McGurk
Brett Holden McGurk is an American diplomat, attorney, and academic who served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. He…
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Jun 10, 2026
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Former senior U.S. national security official McGurk argued publicly that the core deadlock in Tehran-Washington talks is Trump's coercive approach demanding Iranian capitulation versus Tehran's insistence on a dignified diplomatic framework.