Pakistan Mediates US-Iran Talks Amid Regional Tensions

0:00It's March 29th. This has been Cooper News today, your AI-powered local news. Pakistan just announced it'll host talks between the United States and Iran in the coming days. Foreign Minister Ishak Dar shared the news after meetings with top diplomats from Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. No word yet from Washington or Tehan on whether it'll be direct talks or indirect ones through Pakistan. And stepping up as a mediator, thanks to its solid ties with both sides, officials say this follows weeks of behind-the-scenes work. But Iran's parliament speaker, Muhammad Baghur Kalebaf, brushed it off, calling it a cover story right as 2,500 U.S. Marine showed, up in the Middle East for training. Folks on the ground are terrified. A 71-year-old in the region told how cost and airstrikes have people fearing for their homes. Iranians crossing into Iraq are begging the U.S. to stop the fighting that's already killed more than 3,000 people. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says they'll expand their push into 7-11

1:04on, widening a security zone to hit Iranian-backed. Hezbollah harder. No specifics yet on that move. All this chaos is hitting global oil, natural gas, and fertilizer supplies hard, messing with air travel, and shaking markets through key spots like. The Strait of Hormuz and the Babel Mandev Strait, with talks on the horizon, pretensions boiling, the regions on edge for whatever comes next.