I have my doubts cause Iran's denial is too blunt
also do you think Iran will accept such one conditions??
Iran's denial was blunt 4-5 days ago when Trump postponed attacks on energy infrastructure citing the reason that talks happened.
But since then not only Trump has doubled down on peace talks are going on but many independent coverage and news reported few things
1) Turkey, Pakistan and Egypt are trying to mediate between them
2) back channel talks to have higher officials meet at neutral venue like in Pakistan
3) 4 or 5 conditions send by Iran which includes two key conditions - A) To recognize rights of Iran to control Hormuz. B) US to give war reparations
At the same time, there's growing pressure from all other countries on both US and Iran to do ceasefire and energy crisis is gradually spiralling out of hands.
Such news didn't happen for first few weeks but suddenly they are all over the media in past few days. There's truth to this.
Why Israel is still attacking Iran?
It's strategy - continuous bombing on one hand along with an open channel of peace talks is a strategy to push Iran to accept conditions and negotiate.
Why Iran especially IRGC isn't accepting openly about having peace talks?
Because the context - openly admitting having peace talks imply Iran has admitted defeat, succumb to US pressure and is finding way out to do ceasefire. This is the last thing Iran wants. At the same time, there's trust deficit in Iran - what if US is buying time to build more assets?
So, Iran is maintaining its hard stance and denying upfront but based on reports I am quite confident back door talks are happening.
Also during war, negotiation begins behind the back door while war is going at the front.
Will it work? Don't know.
Both parties have conditions which aren't easily acceptable.
US simply have an idiot in the power who doesn't know a shit about how to be diplomatic and statesman and thus speaks whatever nonsense (Iran is begging) he likes to.