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Trump Pulls Pakistan into the Abraham Accords Pitch as Tehran Threatens to Walk The latest twist out of Washington and Tehran has direct consequences for every capital that sits along the Indian Ocean rim, and the Male desk is reading the signals carefully.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has all but told the Americans that the ceasefire track is on the verge of collapse, while President Donald Trump has used Truth Social to publicly name Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir of Pakistan among the regional leaders he wants pulled into a widened Abraham Accords framework.
That single line, the inclusion of Islamabad in a normalisation arrangement built around Israel, is the part South Asia desks should not skim past.
Tehran's spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei rejected reports that any draft included a uranium handover, calling the claim a fabrication, and Tasnim reported the talks are close to being cancelled outright.
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