After Islamabad: Washington’s policy options in the Iran war
With no risk-free path, the question is which combination of pressure and flexibility is most likely to produce a durable outcome
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THE collapse of the US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad on Sunday (Apr 12) has clarified one thing above all else: The war will not end quickly or cleanly.
After 21 hours of the highest-level face-to-face engagement between Washington and Teheran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, US Vice-President JD Vance boarded Air Force Two empty-handed.
Vance blamed Iran for refusing to commit to the one demand that, in US President Donald Trump’s own words, was “99 per cent of it”, a verifiable renunciation of nuclear weapons and enrichment capability.
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