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Trump admin used secret backchannel to Iran's IRGC during peace talks

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During peace negotiations with Iran, U.S. officials discovered that the Iranian negotiators might not have had the full authority of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). To circumvent this, Trump administration officials established a secret backchannel to IRGC leadership, enlisting Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, due to his trusted relationships with both U.S. and IRGC leaders. This unconventional approach aimed to ensure direct communication with the decision-makers, highlighting the complexities of negotiating with Iran where power structures can be opaque. The effort to reach a memorandum of understanding ultimately failed. AI

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  1. Axios Technology TIER_1 English(EN) · Barak Ravid ·

    Scoop: Inside Trump's secret backchannel to Iran's Revolutionary Guard

    <p>In mid-May, U.S. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/18/iran-peace-deal-offer-nuclear-unacceptable" target="_blank">negotiators</a> trying to reach a deal with Iran to end the war ran into a problem: They couldn't tell if the people across the table actually spoke for the c…

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