Trump Admits to Secret Communication Channel with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

BlockBeats News, August 17th. According to Fox News, U.S. President Trump today confirmed that he has a secret communication channel with an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official.

A few days ago, the insider of U.S.-Iran negotiations was exposed. The Trump administration had bypassed Iranian negotiators to contact the Revolutionary Guard. In mid-May this year, U.S. negotiators faced a problem when trying to reach an agreement with Iran to end the war: they could not determine whether the Iranian representative sitting across the table truly represented the influential Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Therefore, Trump administration officials took an unusual approach—bypassing the Iranian negotiators and directly contacting senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members.

The person chosen by the U.S. to handle this secret communication channel was Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. He has an extremely rare advantage: earning the trust of both the U.S. and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leadership. One of the key reasons U.S.-Iran negotiations have been so difficult is that Washington cannot determine who truly holds the decision-making power in Iran.