{"id":232859,"date":"2026-06-13T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=232859"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:56:34","slug":"why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=232859","title":{"rendered":"Why India is rankled by Pakistan playing mediator in US-Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet conclusion of US and Iranian backchannel engagements in Islamabad left more than diplomatic ambiguity. It crystallised a striking image: a financially strained, politically volatile Pakistan briefly positioning itself as a facilitator in one of the world\u2019s most combustible rivalries. Substantive or symbolic, the episode underscores a deeper churn in West Asian geopolitics \u2013 one in which agility trumps credibility&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/asia-opinion\/article\/3350023\/why-india-rankled-pakistan-playing-mediator-us-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quiet conclusion of US and Iranian backchannel engagements in Islamabad left more than diplomatic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/232859-why-india-is-rankled-by-pakistan-playing-mediator-in-us-iran-war-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}