International mediators have begun talking about the erratic nature of Donald Trump and the Iranians actually took this a step further. A few weeks ago I was told by an Iranian official involved with the negotiations that Iran began enlisting the services of what they called senior psychologists in Iran to begin diagnosing Donald Trump and they determined that he is operating from a position of mental illness and mental deficiency and so a senior Iranian psychologist 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 saw as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies, and they weren't saying this in an ad hominem way, they were saying it as a matter of fact, and then almost quite clinically they said, and we begin to see this process yielding results as we 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.

-Jeremy Scahill