Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence reached out to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through another country’s spy agency one day after the US and Israeli attacks began to discuss terms for ending the conflict, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing Middle Eastern officials and officials from a Western country briefed on the outreach. According to the report, the US officials are “sceptical” of either US President Donald Trump or the Iranian surviving leadership being ready to make a deal, while Israeli officials reportedly urged Washington to ignore Iran’s outreach.