“Our military forces have made the best possible use of the cease-fire period to rebuild their capabilities,” Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament who has been leading negotiations with the United States, said in an audio address to the nation earlier this month. “We will make the enemy regret any renewed aggression against Iran.” At the same time, Iranian officials courted regional mediators, signaling that they would be open to resolving the standoff diplomatically to avert the resumption of war. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke to European and regional counterparts and the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, seeking to defuse tensions, according to readouts by Iran’s foreign ministry. Iran also hosted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan and its top army chief, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, who met with Iran’s political and military leadership and pushed for Tehran to agree to a proposed agreement. “The Iranians have shown that Trump can achieve less through threats and coercion than through diplomacy,” said Omid Memarian, a senior a senior analyst at DAWN, …