{"id":42471,"date":"2026-03-04T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42471"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:04:40","slug":"iran-intelligence-operatives-signalled-openness-to-talks-with-cia-to-end-war-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42471","title":{"rendered":"Iran intelligence operatives signalled openness to talks with CIA to end war: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Operatives \u200bfrom Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence signalled openness to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) \u200cto talks on ending the war, the New York \u200cTimes reported on Wednesday, \u2060citing \u200bofficials briefed on \u200bthe matter.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200coffer was made through \u200ban unnamed country&#8217;s spy agency, the NYT said, citing Middle Eastern \u2060officials and officials from a Western nation \u200cwho spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and the CIA did \u2060not immediately respond \u2060to a request for \u200bcomment. Officials \u200cin Washington are sceptical as to whether Iran or the Trump administration is really ready for an &#8220;off-ramp&#8221;, at least in the short term, the \u2060report added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s ambassador to the United \u2060Nations in Geneva on Tuesday ruled out for now any negotiations with the US, days after the US and Israel launched joint strikes on his country.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald \u2060Trump said on Tuesday \u200bthat Tehran wanted to talk but it was too late, as the US continued its military \u200boperation against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mohammad Mokhber, a senior aide to the late supreme leader Khamenei, told state TV that Iran had no intention of negotiating with the US and could continue the Middle East war for as long as needed<\/p>\n<p>He told the broadcaster that Iran had &#8220;no trust in the Americans, and we have no basis for any negotiations with them&#8221;, adding that: &#8220;We can continue the war as long as we want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s security chief Ali Larijani, who was also an adviser to Khamenei, said in a post on X on Monday that Tehran would not negotiate with the US, in response to a report that Iran was trying to revive negotiations with Washington.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives \u200bfrom Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence signalled openness to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) \u200cto talks on ending the war, the New York \u200cTimes reported on Wednesday, \u2060citing \u200bofficials briefed on \u200bthe matter. The \u200coffer was made through \u200ban unnamed country&#8217;s spy agency, the NYT said, citing Middle Eastern \u2060officials and officials from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}