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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Two veterans. Two Ivy-caliber educations. One table in Islamabad... The negotiation that could define the Middle East for a generation comes down to two men who have more in common than either side would admit. JD Vance, 41. Enlisted in the Marines after high school. Deployed to Iraq as a military journalist. Came home, got into Yale Law School, and wrote a bestselling memoir about surviving poverty in Appalachian Ohio. Rose from nothing to the Vice Presidency in under a decade. He opposed this war from the start, told Trump it was "a bad idea" to his face, and now carries the burden of ending it. Abbas Araghchi, 63. Volunteered for the IRGC as a teenager during the Islamic Revolution. Fought in the Iran-Iraq war. Then earned a PhD in political thought from the University of Kent in England, studying under a British Marxism scholar, writing a thesis on reconciling Islamic governance with Western democratic theory. Served as ambassador to Finland and Japan. Led nuclear negotiations that produced the 2015 JCPOA. His American counterpart at the time, Wendy Sherman, called him "steely, determined, and calm." He literally wrote a book called "Negotiations: The Power of Diplomacy" vowing Iran would never surrender its nuclear capacity. If anyone can find the middle ground between American demands and Iranian survival, it might be these two. Source: WSJ, Britannica, Stimson Center