Even as the United States and Iran enter the seventh month of open armed conflict, Washington has honored its obligations as host nation to the United Nations by granting visas to Iranian President Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Araghchi for next week's General Assembly in New York. The decision arrives wrapped in restriction and rhetorical displeasure, a reminder that international law sometimes compels adversaries to share the same room. It is a moment that illuminates the strange architecture of global diplomacy — where war and protocol must somehow coexist, and where the obligations of ho