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
RANK_REASON Reporting on a secret diplomatic backchannel established by a former US administration during sensitive international negotiations. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.0]
- Abbas Araghchi
- Ahmad Vahidi
- Ali Khamenei
- Iran
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
- Mojtaba Khamenei
- trump
- Tulsi Gabbard
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