India, March 27 -- A former US official is not pleased with the prospect of Pakistan becoming a negotiator in mediating peace between Iran and the US amid the ongoing war. Questioning Pakistan's credibility former US Army combatant, Colonel Douglas Macgregor (retd) said that Israel wouldn't view the country as neutral in the negotiations and would "laugh off" the prospect of Islamabad as the venue for talks.

Instead, the official proposed that India should step in and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should give US President Donald Trump a call.

"If the Israelis heard that they were supposed to show up in Islamabad for a meeting, I think they'd laugh it off. This is ridiculous. Why should we trust anything those people say? That's not true ...