How Trump bypassed Iran's negotiators and used Kurdistan's Barzani to contact IRGC

The Donald Trump administration took an unusual route in its efforts to end the war with Iran, turning to Iraq’s Kurdistan President Nechirvan Barzani as a backchannel to the powerful and raging Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after long-running Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death in American-Israeli strikes, according to an Axios report.