Tehran’s High-Stakes Gambit: Why Iran’s Last-Minute Demands May Have Already Doomed the Islamabad Talks — And What It Means for America’s Next Move
Just 24 hours before what was billed as a make-or-break summit in Islamabad, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf dropped what amounts to a diplomatic grenade. In a crisp X post, he laid down two non-negotiable preconditions for any face-to-face talks with the United States: an immediate, verifiable ceasefire across Lebanon and the unfreezing of…