Iran takes startling step believing Trump is 'legitimately mentally ill': enlist help of "senior psychologists" [View all]

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Iran takes startling step believing Trump is 'legitimately mentally ill': enlist help of "senior psychologists"
Alexander Willis
June 12, 2026 2:32PM ET



Amid the ongoing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian negotiators have recently enlisted the help of “senior psychologists” to help them navigate what they believe to be a pressing issue involving President Donald Trump, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill claimed Friday, citing Iranian sources.

“A couple of weeks ago, the Iranian side added senior psychologists to their negotiating team to review the communications that they were going to be sending to the mediators to give to Trump,” Scahill said during an appearance on the podcast “Breaking Points.”

“They did that because the Iranians believe that Trump is legitimately mentally ill and is operating in an impaired mental state. And they didn't say this as a joke, they didn't say this with any lightness.”

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“The [Iranian sources] said 'we recognize that we are dealing with a mentally incapacitated individual and we've had senior psychologists work up a psychological profile of what they think is going on with Trump's brain, and so we started to cater our messages by running them past senior psychologists before delivering them to Trump,'” Scahill continued.

“And they said ‘we started to then see some progress’ – they almost talked about it in a clinical sense like they're dealing with a patient.”

More at link and YouTube interview with journalist

Edited to add: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/07/766450/in-letter-us-counterparts-iranian-psychologists-call-dialogue-trump-mental-health

In letter to US counterparts, Iranian psychologists call for dialogue on Trump's mental health
This is from April but is still highly relevant.

A group of Iranian psychologists, in an open letter to their American counterparts, has urged professional dialogue regarding serious psychological and personality concerns about US President Donald Trump.

The letter, signed by ‘The Iranian Psychological Society,’ calls for a scientific examination of the US president's behavioral patterns, which they say pose a direct threat to global peace.

In the letter, the Iranian psychologists question whether any mechanism exists within the United States to assess and ensure the psychological stability and mental health of the sitting president.