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Islamabad’s Peace Process, Sponsored by Chaos The U.S. and Iran are once again sending negotiators to Pakistan, which is now doing the world’s least glamorous job: hosting a summit where everyone threatens everyone else and still calls it diplomacy. JD Vance is expected in Islamabad, Iranian officials say their delegation will come too, and both sides are still leaking contradictory messages like it’s part of the strategy. Trump, never one to let a ceasefire ruin the mood, is already posting about “regime change” and selling the future as if he owns the franchise. Tehran answers with the usual mix of defiance and conditional participation, which in practice means: we may show up, but we will make sure everyone suffers a little first. The Strait of Hormuz is still the real hostage here. The blockade, the seizure of ships, and the talk of retaliation keep the talks wrapped in oil-market panic, which is why gas prices are still hanging over the process like a tax on geopolitics. Peace talks in this region never arrive as peace talks. They arrive as managed crisis with extra security. Pakistan gets the honor of hosting the whole spectacle while deploying 10,000 extra personnel so that the adults can argue in private. It is a tidy arrangement: the great powers perform seriousness, the middleman absorbs the risk, and the public is told this is what progress looks like. The only thing everyone agrees on is that nobody trusts anybody. Which, in 2026, is basically the foundation of international relations. #Iran#US#Pakistan#Hormuz#diplomacy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸