A former Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that the US intelligence community is aware that mediators Pakistan and Qatar are biased in favor of Iran at the expense of the United States, according to a report.
The remark adds a senior US military perspective to the ongoing debate about the role of Pakistan and Qatar as intermediaries between Washington and Tehran. As The Zioneer has previously reported, former Israeli intelligence officials have also expressed concerns about the reliability of Pakistani and Qatari mediation, with one former figure recalling that Pakistani officials are liars and that Qatar mediates with Iran. The statement from the former Joint Chiefs official — one of the highest-ranking US military officers to address the issue — aligns with those assessments but does not cite specific evidence. The US intelligence community has not publicly responded to the claim.
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