US used Iraqi Kurdish leader to relay messages to Iran's Revolutionary Guard command
为向伊朗革命卫队传话 美国找了谁？
US media report that in May, after the outbreak of US-Iran hostilities, the Trump administration asked Iraqi Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani to contact Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Ahmad Vahidi. The US wanted to know if the IRGC leadership supported the ongoing US-Iran negotiations. Barzani facilitated a call, and Vahidi expressed full support for the talks. A subsequent US proposal for secret talks in Erbil was rejected by Iran over fears of Israeli assassination.
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The piece, sourced from Xinhua via the Beijing News, frames the US as a belligerent party now scrambling for an exit. It presents the backchannel as evidence that the US has lost the initiative in a war it started.
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