The New York Post reports that "Iranian officials fear that US ceasefire talks are a trap — an attempt to lure the regime’s last surviving leaders into an ambush where they can be assassinated," according to a piece by the Wall Street Journal.
Leaders in Tehran worry that any face-to-face negotiations with the US and Israel to end the war would be a ruse to draw out Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Ghalibaf, a former paramilitary commander and one of the few senior Iranian leaders to escape the airstrikes, is wanted by the US to take part in any peace discussions.
Considering how just last September Israel used peace talks in Qatar as a means to conduct an air strike on Hamas leaders--in a neutral country--this seems a valid concern.
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