The war in Iran has entered its fourth consecutive month; the ongoing peace talks swing with pauses, resumes, exchanges of threatening language, and subsequent escalations, raising questions over the seriousness of the ongoing peace\u00a0process. How long do peace talks last? Will the peace process help defuse a looming full-scale war? Following the failed peace talks between America and Iran in Islamabad and Oman. This state of affairs strengthens the fear of further escalation leading to an all-out war and deepens the global energy crisis. Now, all eyes are focused on the next round of peace talks, which will possibly happen in Moscow or China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israel continues to target key Iranian figures involved in peace talks, including the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and former parliament speaker Ali Larijani. Correspondingly, the American negotiating teams, composed of non-political figures, question and doubt Washington\u2019s peace efforts. Besides, the sections of the mainstream media are heavily engaged in reporting peace talks; they largely ignore the ongoing Israeli genocidal atrocities in Gaza and the constant attacks on Lebanon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arguably, the Greater Israel Project and the Israeli defense and political elites openly warning of further attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and T\u00fcrkiye signal a shift in the war tactics. This raises concerns about Washington and Tel Aviv\u2019s diplomacy, which has curbed peace talks into a strategic pause before the military campaign. The point is whether Israel and America are using peace talks as a weapon of war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A glimpse of American way of peace talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Given the history of major conflicts ranging from Latin America to Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, America has intervened and led numerous peace processes to resolve the conflicts. Evidence shows that during the 1990s, the U.S.<\/a> led NATO to resolve the Bosnian War. Furthermore, in 1999, the U.S.<\/a> again mediated to halt ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Several experts note that the U.S. continues its efforts to integrate Balkan states into NATO and the European Union, presumably (America\u2019s strategy) to prevent \u201cfrozen conflicts\u201d from escalating. True, though, the U.S. also assisted in talks between Serbia and Kosovo. This is evident in the \u201cWestern Balkan democracy and the Prosperity <\/a>Act.\u201d The other side of the story is bleak; The Guardian<\/a>, a report revealed, citing the Kosovo sources, said that the U.S. and EU leadership have silently backed Serbia, which could possibly aid Russia to intervene in the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though the current state of NATO and Trump\u2019s trade embargo<\/a> on the EU and his plan to annex Greenland may change the picture of Europe in the future. Factually speaking, America has always safeguarded its own interests. For Example, Nikola Mikovic<\/a> offers a revealing commentary, \u201cFrom the Balkans to the South Caucasus: How Trump\u2019s \u2018Peace Deals\u2019 serve U.S. and Israeli Interests.\u201d Mikovic opinion aligns with leading critics that America unconditionally favors Israeli policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The American strategy is visible in the United Nations Security Council; the U.S. has shielded Israel\u2019s ongoing \u201cGenocide in Gaza<\/a>\u201d, and it has a history of blocking \u201cUN resolution against <\/a>Israel.\u201d Professor Michael Lynk asked: \u201cWhat does the U.S. get out of shielding Israel from accountability at the U.N.?<\/a>\u201d What Lynk finds is shocking: the U.S. \u201cdiplomatic shield\u201d safeguards Israel\u2019s violations of international law and thus upholds Israel\u2019s regional influence and prevents scrutiny of Israel\u2019s inhumane actions in the occupied Palestinian territory.\u201d Khaled Elgindy\u2019s in-depth analysis published in Brookings<\/a> provides insights into the American-led Israel-Palestine peace talks during the American presidents Clinton, Bush, and Trump. Elgindy concludes \u201chow the peace process killed the two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading America-Iran peace talks. What happens next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Considering the long history of America\u2019s peace processes and resulting negotiations, one can see how America has emerged as an untrusted and unreliable partner with a double-edged sword that unconditionally arms Israeli misconduct. Arguably, America practices each peace process opportunity as a \u201cdiplomatic tool\u201d to safeguard Israel and its interests in the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the past two decades, a long list of credible studies featuring the numerous peace processes led by America mainly focused on the Middle East diplomacy including a Diplo Foundation (2026) report that argues, America uses \u201cBig Stick diplomacy<\/a>\u201d meaning \u201ca strategy where quite words carry weight because of the threat of overwhelming force,\u201d and here are the blueprints of this approach in case of peace talks with the Iranians over the \u201cStrait of <\/a>Hormuz.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The current peace between America and Iran is a textbook illustration of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy in the Middle East. Roy Casagranda<\/a> unpacks the U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East which according to him is not about \u201cpeace.\u201d True, America\u2019s peace talks are skillfully designed to assist Israel\u2019s long-term goal, \u201cGreater Israel<\/a>\u201d Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n First, America applies a soft diplomacy strategy to create an image of soft power and to convince ordinary people at home and in the Middle East that it values peace. At the same time, \u201cTrump threatens to wipe out Iran\u2019s \u2018whole <\/a>civilization.\u201d Imagine, with such \u201cviolent rhetoric<\/a>,\u201d could Donald Trump\u2019s credibility as a negotiator be trusted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s applause for assassinating top \u201cIranian leaders<\/a>\u201d directly involved in the peace process, including Iran\u2019s national security chief<\/a>, Ali Larijani; the head of Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps<\/a>, prominent scientists, politicians, and military figures. Besides, Israel has deliberately targeted Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh<\/a> in Tehran and several other Hamas leaders, including Mohammed Sinwar<\/a> and Yahya Sinwar<\/a>. Hizballah and Hamas that are both seen as legitimate struggles by Professor William Clare Roberts<\/a>. Still Israel is not willing to halt its assassinating tactics. Can peace be possible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Traceably, Israel and America have applied the same old strategy of openly supporting mobs in Tehran and presenting them as peaceful protestors to facilitate a distasteful regime change operation inside sovereign Iran and continue assassinating negotiators. Of course, as \u201cIsrael is rapidly killing Iran\u2019s top leaders,\u201d experts like Jon Alterman<\/a> warn that \u201cthe strategy could backfire.\u201d Perhaps that is why Pakistani fighter jets were escorting<\/a> the Iranian plane carrying the delegation during the \u201cIslamabad peace talks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What could be expected in such a situation? The failure of \u201cIran-U.S. peace talks<\/a>\u201d tells nothing more than what a Al24news<\/a> news anchor, Karim (Kareem Fess Zakari), guest discussed in a series of debates: whether these peace talks are a \u201cstrategic pause,\u201d \u201cceasefire,\u201d or a “tactical resupply.” True, as many writers overwhelmingly cited Aaron David Miller<\/a>, who famously said, \u201cWe, the United States, may not be an honest broker, but we can be an effective broker.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Evidently speaking, the U.S. negotiating team consists of real estate developers and investors like Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner while the foreign policy experts and noted diplomats have been sidelined. This approach strengthens the concept; the decline of diplomacy and the mounting influence of the military-industrial complex and Israeli lobby. In a recent Piers Morgan uncensored, Joe Kent<\/a>, revealed the Iranian agreed to Trump peace deal but the Israeli lobby used the influence mechanism, doner, influential Israelis in pro-Israeli media and pressure campaigns to sabotage peace efforts and endorse pushed Trump for war on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n