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US President Donald Trump says Iran has entered peace talks and signalled it is open to a deal.
But who in Iran can he talk to?
Former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. His successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has not been seen or heard in public, his condition uncertain.
Several other commanders and politicians have been assassinated. Israel’s killing of security chief Ali Larijani eliminated one person seen as a possible negotiator.
Iranian state media denied at first any negotiations are happening at all. But the Foreign Ministry later said that “messages from the US, sent via friendly countries to seek talks and…