How Trump bypassed Iran's negotiators and used Kurdistan's Barzani to contact IRGC

How Trump went around Iran’s negotiators to reach the IRGC through BarzaniThe Donald Trump administration took an unusual route in its efforts to end the war with Iran, turning to Iraq’s Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani as a backchannel to the powerful and raging Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after long-running Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death in American-Israeli strikes, according to an Axios report.The move allowed Washington to bypass Iran’s official negotiators, including parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, amid growing doubts over whether they had the authority to speak for the IRGC.The concerns emerged in mid-May, as US negotiators trying to reach a deal with Tehran began questioning whether Iran’s negotiati