{
  "id": 1472013,
  "title": "Inside Trump's Iran backchannel: How Iraq's Barzani helped the US prez reach IRGC",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/inside-trumps-iran-backchannel-how-iraqs-barzani-helped-the-us-prez",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-17T10:43:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
    "slug": "live-mint",
    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/inside-trumps-iran-backchannel-how-iraqs-barzani-helped-the-us-prez-reach-irgc-11786962649902.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Trump administration secretly reached out to Iran’s powerful IRGC through Iraq's Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani after US officials doubted whether Iran’s negotiators had authority to seal a deal.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}