JD Vance’s peace talks with Iran may have been blown up after a key figure helping plan the summit was wounded in US-Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday.
Kamal Kharazi, Iran’s former foreign minister, was injured when a residential building in Tehran was struck, according to the New York Times.
Kharazi, 81, is seen as a moderate and widely respected foreign policy figure within the regime.
Iranian state media said he had been overseeing engagement with Pakistani officials to help organize a meeting with Vance aimed at ending the war.
Iranian officials condemned the joint US-Israel strikes as an ‘attempt to derail diplomacy,’ even as Donald Trump insists he wants to wind down the conflict.
