Iran and Pakistan traded missile attacks over the past week‚ supposedly as part of each nation’s efforts to disrupt violence by ethnic separatist groups. The strikes arrived against a backdrop of spiraling conflict in the Middle East‚ meaning any further violence could risk expanding that fighting. To be clear‚ there’s no specific‚ concrete tie between Iran’s conflict with Pakistan and the wider conflicts in the Middle East‚ which include Israel’s war in Gaza as well as a tit-for-tat...