Kuwait Drone Strike Accusation Puts US-Iran Islamabad Talks on a Knife’s Edge

Kuwait’s accusation that Iran carried out a drone strike against Kuwaiti territory threatens to derail the US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad before they produce any binding agreement. The talks, brokered with Pakistani mediation and aimed at de-escalating the military standoff between Washington and Tehran, now face a concrete test: whether a direct attack on a sovereign Gulf state, alleged during what was supposed to be a diplomatic cooling-off period, will blow up the fragile framework both sides spent weeks constructing.