Trying to hammer out a sustainable peace plan between the US, Israel, Lebanon and Iran is already an impossibly hard task, despite the fact that it is needed to bring the world back from the brink.
But Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to add a caveat that a slew of Muslim-majority countries must also sign the Abraham Accords (diplomatic agreements with Israel) as a “mandatory” condition for a peace deal with Iran is dangerous and unnecessary, particularly as the countries in question have had this war forced upon them. They include Pakistan, the peace broker, which has already categorically rejected the suggestion, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which host US bases and so have come under Iranian missile fire.
