What now after the collapse in peace talks between America and Iran in Pakistan? The gap between the two sides on the two critical issues – Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz – proved too big in the end. Is it back to war? What does the failure to reach a deal mean for the fragile, two-week ceasefire the two sides agreed? Whose fault is it that the discussions, which lasted for a marathon 21 hours, broke down? So far, there is little in the way of concrete facts about what exactly happened in Islamabad but the blame game is already under way.

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First out of the blocks was J.D. Vance, who led the American side. He said the US had given the Iranian regime its “final and best offer” but to no avail. The Vice President revealed that he had spoken to Donald Trump “a half dozen times, a dozen times” during the negotiations – the highest-level talks between US and Iranian officials since the 1979 Islamic........

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