In a statement issued after talks in the Oval Office at the White House, Trump said a series of leaders from the Middle East and the Muslim world had taken part. According to him, "the final aspects and details of the agreement are now being discussed and will be announced shortly." Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, who arrived in Tehran over the weekend with a Pakistani delegation, said the conversation showed that "a positive and sustainable outcome is within reach."

Following reports of progress in talks in Pakistan, concern is mounting in Israel, as the Israeli leadership has been almost completely cut off from updates on what is happening behind closed doors in the critical negotiations. Security officials and coalition faction leaders took part in the meeting.

The details of the emerging deal have not yet been published, and the world is focused mainly on the future of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. In Israel, however, the main concern is the nuclear issue. Israel is still maintaining readiness for the possibility that the talks will collapse and the fighting will resume, but the prevailing assessment is that the chances of that happening, which looked highly significant in the middle of last week, have diminished considerably.

Journalist Kavya Kirti recalls how the attack in Kashmir “felt like a targeted assault” and content creator Anshul Saxena says “Hamas is also a threat to India”. Both were part of a delegation of pro-Israel Indian social media influencers who visited Israel this month. These are their stories. 

In a statement after talks in the Oval Office at the White House, Trump said a series of leaders from the Middle East and the Muslim world had taken part. He said the “final aspects and details of the agreement are now being discussed and will be announced shortly.”