Bangladesh, March 28 -- Recent reports go that US President Donald J Trump is now for a pause on attacks on Irans energy plants for 10 days. He assesses that Washingtons so-called current talks with Tehran are going “very well.” It is being said that Islamabad has conveyed a 15-point US proposal to Tehran. Cairo and Ankara are also interested in a mediation for peace between the US and Iran. One, however, is not sure if such news, seemingly optimistic on the face of it, could be taken seriously.

The signals from Washington and Jerusalem, the two capitals which had recently launched massive offensives against radical Tehran, are hardly positive. Recently, President Trump has sent additional troops to the Middle East. On its pa...