The Iranian delegation which met with the Americans was ‘at times…at odds with government policy,’ reports i24NEWS. The U.S. denies that talks took place.
Source: Secret US-Iran talks reportedly held in Kurdish region of Iraq
The Iranian delegation which met with the Americans was āat timesā¦ at odds with government policy,ā reports i24NEWS. The U.S. denies that talks took place.
By World Israel News StaffĀ
A hotel in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region in Iraq, was the scene last week of secret meetings taking place between U.S. government and Iranian officials, according to an i24NEWS report on Wednesday.
In a report, attributed to unnamed sources, the Israel-based television channel says that the Iranian regime is also showing āsigns of a nascent upheaval.ā
i24NEWS reports that ā125 Iranian officials were said to be arrested, charged with espionage in an attempt to neutralizeā this burgeoning resistance to the regimeās policy.
However, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook immediately denied that secret meetings had taken place. Iran has rejected diplomacy ātoo many times,ā he said, and āright now, there are no back-channel talks between the U.S. and Iran.ā
The Iranian delegation which reportedly met with the Americans was āat timesā¦at odds with government policy,ā according to the report.
The team āwas headed by the grandson of Iranās Ayatollah Khomeini, Hassan Khomeini, and also included two officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as Iraj Masjedi, Iranās special envoy to Iraq,ā i24 added.
This report was preceded by an āexclusiveā published last Friday by the Ava Today news outlet, citing confidential sources disclosing, as well, that āa series of talks between [an] Iranian delegation [headed] by the grandchild of Iranian Revolutionary Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and American officials was held in a hotel in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.ā
The news outlet, which focuses on Kurdish and Iranian developments, said that its source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed as well that āa delegation of Saudi officials was residing in the same hotel before they [were]Ā moved to another one in order to be away from the place [where] the negotiations took place.ā