WASHINGTON: The US has denied reports on Wednesday claiming that a US delegation secretly traveled to Tehran under the mediation of Oman.
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida had reported that the US provided Iran with a list of ten Mossad agents allegedly operating within the country and suspected of being involved in recent assassinations, including those of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
The alleged visit aimed to reduce tensions following the recent assassinations, which were linked to Israel. The reported exchange was described as a good-faith gesture by the US after Israel’s strikes, which resulted in the deaths of Haniyeh in Tehran and Shukr in Beirut.
The report also suggested that the US was distancing itself from the Israeli strikes, indicating that they were carried out without Washington’s involvement.
Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated on July 31 in Tehran, while Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut just hours earlier.
