RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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Axios says then-intel chief Tulsi Gabbard contacted top Iraqi Kurdish official in May to ascertain Revolutionary Guard's position on talks; Iran sets $30,000 bounty for US soldiers The post US had secret backchannel with IRGC, learned it supports Iran’s negotiators – report appeared first on The Times of Israel.
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Axios says then-intel chief Tulsi Gabbard contacted top Iraqi Kurdish official in May to ascertain Revolutionary Guard's position on talks; Iran sets $30,000 bounty for US soldiers The post US had secret backchannel with IRGC, learned it supports Iran’s negotiators – report appeared first on The Times of Israel.
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In mid-May, U.S. negotiators 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 country's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). So Trump administration officials did something unconventional — they went around Iran's negotiators and reached out directly to IRGC leadership. The person they tapped for the backchannel was Nechirvan Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, who had something very few others do: the trust of both U.S. and IRGC leaders. Why it matters: The episode,...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 3 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “US had secret backchannel with IRGC, learned it supports Iran’s negotiators.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Middle East and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from Axios (Aug 16, 2026, 09:00 UTC); the most recent came from The Times of Israel (Aug 16, 2026, 16:51 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 2 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “secret backchannel”.
3 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “US had secret backchannel with IRGC, learned it supports Iran’s negotiators” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/2723fccebbbf4d4dfdb2f17b2671128f
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