{"id":88621,"date":"2026-04-21T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/fog-of-peace-obscuring-viability-of-next-round-of-us-iran-talks-analyst-says\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:43:49","slug":"fog-of-peace-obscuring-viability-of-next-round-of-us-iran-talks-analyst-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/fog-of-peace-obscuring-viability-of-next-round-of-us-iran-talks-analyst-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fog of peace\u2019 obscuring viability of next round of US-Iran talks, analyst says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As uncertainty persists over whether the Iran-US talks will go ahead in Islamabad, one analyst is urging caution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what <!--more--> they call the fog of war, except this is the fog of peace,\u201d said Ahmed Helal, managing director for the Gulf region at the Asia Group. \u201cNo one knows who\u2019s going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helal, speaking to Al Jazeera from Doha, said the tone from both sides remains deeply concerning. \u201cI would put my money on things getting worse before they get better because the tone is increasingly bellicose from both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#DonaldTrump #US #Pakistan #Iran #USIranTalks #USIranCeasefire #Israel #USIsraelWarOnIran #IranWar #IranConflict #IRGC #RegimeChange #MiddleEast #OperationEpicFury #AlJazeeraEnglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As uncertainty persists over whether the Iran-US talks will go ahead in Islamabad, one analyst is urging caution. \u201cThis is what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}