Iran hasn’t yet announced who will be representing the country during talks this weekend with the US, led by Vice President JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
Many of the regime’s top-ranking officials have been killed by US-Israeli strikes, including those who played a key role in previous negotiations as well as the country’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Here are three officials who could represent Tehran in the talks in Pakistan:
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament and former Tehran mayor, has emerged as a key interlocutor with the Trump administration throughout the war, and some Iranian media reports have suggested he could…