Qatar and China Join Forces to Restart US-Iran Talks
🕊️ DOHA — Qatar just added Beijing to the mediation table; that changes the ask. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Every prior channel — Oman, Pakistan — ran on Western-tolerated neutrality. China co-mediating reframes this as a multilateral process Washington cannot quietly veto. Beijing gains diplomatic visibility at Iran's most vulnerable moment; Tehran gains cover. The price: any deal China brokers carries implicit Chinese terms on post-war Gulf access. Washington's next move signals whether it treats this as help or pressure.
