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Trump confirms negotiating with Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
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FILE: In this handout picture provided by Ihe Islamic Consultative Assembly News Agency (ICANA), Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, dressed in an IRGC uniform, chairs a session in Tehran on February 1, 2026. (ICANA News Agency/AFP)
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump confirms that Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is the regime figure with whom Washington has been engaging in recent weeks.
Trump tells the New York Post that he’ll know “in about a week,” whether Ghalibaf is someone the US can truly work with.
While Ghalibaf has been thought over the past couple of weeks to be Washington’s preferred conduit — despite his hardline background and ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — US officials have refrained from identifying him.
Trump has quipped that whoever he publicly names would end up being killed.
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