Given the failure of this weekend’s peace talks and President Trump’s blockade of Iranian ports, it seems increasingly likely that America and Iran may once again wage war in the skies above Tehran and Isfahan, on the waters of the Persian Gulf, and potentially on the ground too.
But this conflict will ultimately be ended not by bullets or bombs, but by backchannel diplomacy. And as Switzerland’s former ambassador to Iran — where I officially represented Washington’s interests in Tehran — I know what it’ll take for both nations to ink a peace deal.
