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Thu · 05 Nov 2026

US Held Secret Iran Deportation Talks Mid-War, Court Docs Reveal

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US Held Secret Iran Deportation Talks Mid-War, Court Docs Reveal

🛰️ BACK-CHANNEL — Washington was negotiating with Tehran while loading strike assets. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Unsealed court documents confirm a covert US-Iran channel existed during active hostilities — separate from Qatar mediation. Deportation talks require consular cooperation, which means direct contact Tehran publicly denies. This back-channel either survived the war or was the war's quiet backstage. Either way, it complicates every public hardline from both sides.

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