Iran Worried Trump’s Negotiations Could Be Trap to Assassinate One of the Regime’s Last Surviving Political Leaders: Report

Iranian officials fear that US cease-fire talks are a trap — an attempt to lure the regime’s last surviving leaders into an ambush where they can be assassinated, according to a report.

Leaders in Tehran worry that any face-to-face negotiations with the US and Israel to end the war would be a ruse to draw out Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Ghalibaf, a former paramilitary commander and one of the few senior Iranian leaders to escape the airstrikes, is wanted by the US to take part in any peace discussions. (Read more from “Iran Worried Trump’s Negotiations Could Be Trap to Assassinate One of the Regime’s Last Surviving Political Leaders: Report” HERE)