US Feared Israel Was Planning to Kill Iran's Doha Negotiators
🕵️ DOHA — Washington feared its own ally would kill Iran's negotiators. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: US officials believed Israel was actively planning to assassinate Iran's negotiating team mid-talks. Washington was managing two threats simultaneously: Tehran's fractured authorization chain and Jerusalem potentially ending Doha with a strike. It reframes Mojtaba's absence and Iran's stalling not as obstruction, but as rational survival calculus.