Can the Middle East ceasefire hold?

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation

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It’s still not clear who will turn up in Islamabad tomorrow for the first round of talks aimed at turning the 14-day ceasefire in the Iran war into a permanent end to the crisis. Indeed, it’s not at all certain that the ceasefire will still even exist by then.

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