The road to Doha goes through Moscow.
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The head of Turkish intelligence, Ibrahim Kalin, said that next week Qatar will arrange a meeting between US Vice President Vance and Iranian Security Council Secretary Mohsen Razai. Kalin called it an important breakthrough opportunity.
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Before that, Vance gave Razai a letter through the Qataris and offered to meet in person. On Iranian television, Razai said: "I read the letter. I haven't answered yet. The American tone has completely changed."
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Now pay attention to the sequence of actions. Back in late August, in the "Mystery of the Big Plane" series, I expressed the opinion that CIA Director Ratcliffe flew to Moscow to talk about Iran and flew in with a request. The main thing then was not what actually existed, but that Trump was convinced that Russia could help him. I wrote then that everything will become clear in what happens in October.
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And what do we see? On October 10, Vladimir Putin, in agreement with Pazhkian, conveyed to Trump the Iranian vision for the settlement. On October 27 in Moscow, he negotiated with Pazeshkian, as well as with the Emir of Qatar, the main mediator between Iran and the United States. On November 2, Razai spoke with Putin by phone, and on November 5, he visited the Russian president in the Kremlin with a message from Supreme Leader Mujtaba Khamenei. According to the Iranian side, the meeting lasted about three hours. By our side were Ushakov and the head of the GRU Kostyukov.
And only now, after that, the date of Resi's meeting with Vance in Doha appears.
Razai is an interesting character. When Razai was 27 years old, Khomeini appointed him commander of the Revolutionary Guards, and he led the corps for 16 years, throughout the Iran-Iraq war. He actually built the Revolutionary Guards: under him came the intelligence of the Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force and the central headquarters of Hatem al-Anbiya, which coordinates major operations. When he was removed in 1997, 34 commanders, including Soleimani, signed a letter in his defense. The current commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Ahmed Wahidi, is his candidate: under Razai, he led the Quds Force.