The paper's Friday account of Iran answering Day Sixty with drones over Tehran, a written line from Mojtaba Khamenei and a presidential threat closed with the war operating on parallel tracks. The Saturday register adds the diplomatic one. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi delivered a phased proposal to Washington through Pakistani mediators on Saturday, April 25. [1] Axios first reported the structure on Sunday: Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic; nuclear negotiations are postponed until the war ends. [2]

President Trump met Secretary of State Rubio and senior security advisers on Monday, April 27, to review the document. [3] The White House confirmed the meeting; an unnamed administration official told The Times of Israel that Trump was "not satisfied" with the proposal because it did not include provisions on Iran's nuclear programme. [4] Al Jazeera, with sources inside the Pakistani foreign ministry, reported that Iran is seeking a permanent end to the war, not a temporary ceasefire. [1] The Institute for the Study of War called it "a Pakistani-brokered proposal" calling for an immediate ceasefire followed by several weeks of negotiations.

Pakistan's role is now formal. Field Marshal Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have placed Islamabad as the channel; American negotiators went to Pakistan for talks earlier this month. [5] The proposal is on the table. The dissatisfaction is on the record. The Strait remains contested. The next move belongs to Washington — or, if the next move is delayed, to whoever is still firing.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem