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Sunny Peter

Sunny Peter

Editor, Diplomacy & Politics

Editor (Diplomacy & Politics) — an independent international affairs publication. I write on power and its misuse, international law and who it protects, the Global South and the cost it pays. No neutrality. No noise. Just argument.

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What Tehran Already Knew
Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and, separately, met with the Iranian delegation led by Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on the sidelines of the Islamabad Talks, 11 April 2026. Source: X/@PakPMO.

The Ledger

What Tehran Already Knew

Iran arrived at the Islamabad talks knowing what the United States wanted and knowing it could not give it. The negotiations were not a search for agreement — they were a ritual of managed disagreement between parties too exhausted to fight and too far apart to settle.

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