When Iranian government official Ahmad Samavati arrived in Washington, D.C., in February at the head of a five-man negotiating team, he thought he had an offer the Obama administration couldn’t refuse. The Iranian regime was going to turn over scores of top al-Qaida operatives, including some on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted Terrorists’ list. To Samavati’s surprise, the State Department officials he met declined the offer. ‘They told him they did not want any al-Qaida people. They told him they didn’t want them in the United States,’ an Iranian source familiar with the negotiations told Newsmax.
