👈Axios: The United States [earlier] asked Barzani to host secret negotiations in Erbil between U.S. and Iranian negotiators

The Iranians did not fully reject this proposal, but they had concerns about their security

They believed that Israel has many agents in Iraqi Kurdistan, and that Israeli forces are trying to assassinate them in Erbil, or on the route back and forth to this city

In the end, the Erbil meeting was never held

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