Washington, Oct. 28 -- US Vice President JD Vance has opened a direct channel to one of Iran's most powerful hard-liners in an attempt to revive peace negotiations, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. This development unfolds while US President Donald Trump threatens to resume military strikes in the approaching weeks.

Vance transmitted a letter to Mohsen Rezaei, who serves as secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and is a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This outreach was designed to examine whether Washington and Tehran might establish a framework for negotiations.

According to a single individual acquainted with the subject cited by the WSJ, the letter was dispatched at Trump's dir...