Steve Witkoff
United States
Republican
United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace
business
Steven Charles Witkoff is an American real estate developer, investor, former attorney, and founder of the Witkoff Group. Since 2025, Witkoff has served as the United States special envoy to the Middle East and special envoy for peace missions. He has also acted as a de facto envoy to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Jun 12, 2026
Far Right
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is leading the American side of the indirect Iran nuclear talks, meeting Iranian counterparts in Muscat.
Principlists frame Witkoff as a pressure instrument of the Trump administration whose real goal is not a deal but dismantlement of Iran's enrichment program, validating the conservative argument against negotiating under duress.
Jun 6, 2026
Center
The New York Times reported that Israel conducted surveillance operations against Witkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy, as well as senior Pentagon officials including Elbridge Colby and Michael Dymino.
For Yesh Atid, the espionage scandal against the one US administration openly sympathetic to Israel is a catastrophic own goal that Netanyahu's government must answer for, potentially severing the diplomatic lifeline Israel depends on.
Jun 6, 2026
Far Right
Witkoff and Kushner visited Oak Ridge, Tennessee to brief nuclear experts on logistics of a potential Iran peace pact, per an Axios report.
From a Religious Zionism standpoint, Witkoff's involvement in any Iran nuclear framework raises red flags about whether Israeli security interests are being adequately protected in back-channel US-Iran negotiations.