From BBC News.

US President Donald Trump – who prides himself on his deal-making – said he has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the war, and that the two sides are having "good and productive" talks. But Iran has responded saying the US is "negotiating with itself".

Behind all the rhetoric, what – if any – negotiation is taking place? And who would the US be speaking to?

Many of Iran’s senior figures are now dead, and the new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since taking power.

The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says it may now be up to the Iranian parliamentary speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf to talk to the Americans.

What deal, if any, would they be willing to accept? Could there be any common ground?

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