That was Pepe Escobar's throughline, and Pezeshkian seemed to confirm part of it, publicly crediting Pakistan's leadership as the builders of the MOU before landing in Islamabad.
Pepe's account of Switzerland reads like a thriller.
He says the U.S. and Iranian delegations never spoke a single word directly, everything routed through Pakistani and Qatari mediators, and that Iran walked out three times before being coaxed back.
The framing he keeps returning to: nobody, not even close allies, trusts what Trump says day to day, so the Gulf is quietly building its own architecture.
His biggest claim is that Saudi Arabia is shifting its security umbrella away from Washington and toward Pakistan's nuclear deterrent, with Iran's blessing.
He says Pakistani leaders fly to Riyadh this week to take it further.
Where it lands is the question.
Pepe thinks Israel will try to wreck this deal relentlessly.
The MOU holding depends on one thing: whether Washington actually wants it to.
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