Can Pakistan mediate war while opening trade routes to Tehran?

Timing is everything. Late last month, Pakistan announced the opening of overland trade corridors with Iran that will allow Tehran to import goods from Pakistan’s deepwater ports at a time when the U.S. blockade has closed off the country’s access to shipping through the Hormuz Strait.The initiative was first conceived in 2008 through an Iranian-Pakistani road transport agreement but that will likely not satisfy Washington, which had hoped to completely squeeze Iran economically until it capitul...