A two weeks ceasefire was announced on April 8th and peace talks are going on in Islamabad, Pakistan. But these peace talks are unique in a way where one the major party to the war hasn’t joined the talks. Why is Iran war happening in the first place? Who are the belligerents? It was an Israeli war. Israel ever since its independence has been fighting existential threat from its Muslim neighbors. The list is long, but a summary is as follows: There was no Iran in these wars in the beginning. Post 1970s the Sunni Muslim countries like Egypt, Saudi,…