i24NEWS reported that the US and Iran held secret meetings in a hotel in Erbil the capital of the Kurdish region of Iraq last week.
The Iranian delegation was led by the grandson of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, Hassan Khomeini and included Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officials and Iraj Masjedi, Iran's special envoy to Iraq.
There are reports that some of this is due to attempts by the Iranian government to counter a possible soft coup attempt by some factions in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp.
125 Iranian officials were reportedly arrested recently and charged with espionage in which some analysis' claim is an attempt to neutralize their influence.