Haaretz: CIA Chief Makes Secret Visit to ’Israel’ over Iran N-Talks

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had reportedly made a secret visit to the Zionist entity to brief the regime's officials over the ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 states.

Brennan traveled to "Israel" on June 4 and met with high-ranking "Israeli" officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and one of his advisers Yossi Cohen, to discuss the developments in the talks between Iran and the six world powers, Haaretz quoted two senior Zionist officials as saying on Tuesday.

The officials, who asked not to be named, said the CIA chief also held meetings with the head of "Israel's" spy agency Mossad Tamir Pardo and the regime's military intelligence chief Major General Herzl Halevi.

However, it was unclear whether Brennan conveyed a message from US President Barack Obama to Netanyahu about a possible comprehensive agreement over Tehran's nuclear program.

Further, the CIA had not yet commented on the report of Brennan's trip.

Diplomatic efforts aimed at reaching a final agreement over Iran's nuclear program had drawn angry reactions from the Zionist entity. The Tel Aviv regime had been lobbying intensely to thwart such a deal.

Moreover, Brennan's visit to "Israel" came at a sensitive juncture, less than a month ahead of the June 30 deadline set by Tehran and its negotiating sides to finalize a deal, which sought to end the Western dispute over Tehran's nuclear case.

Nonetheless, a few days before his visit to "Israel", Brennan told the US-based CBS network that Washington and Tel Aviv were closely cooperating on the issue of Iran's nuclear negotiations.

"The CIA, NSA[the US National Security Agency] and other intelligence community entities are working very close with their Israeli ... counterparts" regarding the talks, Brennan said.

Accordingly, Iran and the P5+1 states - Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany - had been working on the text of the final deal since they reached mutual understanding on key parameters of such an accord in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.

Source: Haaretz, Edited by website team