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Report Says US Feared Peace Talks Could Collapse

American authorities suspected Israel of scheming to assassinate Tehran's primary diplomatic envoys during high-stakes intermediary peace negotiations held this spring, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned of an Iranian response if the U.S. and Israel breach the interim peace deal, as Tehran prepares to bury its former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But American concerns about the targeting of two particular Iranian officials — Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Parliament — spiked during delicate cease-fire negotiations that began in April.