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The Peacemaker Who Played HavocWith the Middle East 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Violence has continued across much of the Middle East a day after Trump said the US was in “very good” talks with Iran to end the war in the region soon. Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq on Tuesday, while Israeli and US warplanes continued to carry out strikes across Tehran and on other targets in the Islamic Republic. Multiple official sources in Tehran have denied any talks are under way. The Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has been cited as a potential interlocutor with the US, said in a social media post: “No negotiations have been held with the US (…) fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets.” Tehran distrusts any US offer of negotiations, in part because it was in talks with the US before the surprise attack that started the war and killed the supreme leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of senior officials. Iran was also in talks last year when the US and Israel attacked its nuclear facilities, starting a 12-day war. “We must think wisely,” Esmail Kowsari, a member of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, was quoted as saying by the semiofficial Fars news agency. “Their nature is to sow discord so that they can make people distrust officials and believe that such actions have taken place, whereas no such action has occurred.” However, potential intermediaries including Pakistan, Oman, Egypt and others have confirmed tentative efforts to establish channels of communication between Washington and Tehran. Analysts point out that there are deep divisions among surviving senior officials in Tehran, which could explain some of the defiant Iranian reaction. #middle#east#trump#hezbollah#israel 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸