“The US and Iran are engaged in broad but largely unacknowledged efforts to reach agreements on everything from prisoner exchanges to oil revenue to nuclear capabilities — while avoiding deals that could be swatted down by opponents on either side,” Bloomberg reports.
U.S. and Iran Rely on Shadow Diplomacy
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