TEHRAN — Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Iran on Wednesday for the second time this week amid an impasse between Tehran and Washington over a proposal to end the war, Iranian state media reported.
“Mohsin Naqvi traveled to Tehran to meet officials from the Islamic Republic,” Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, citing diplomatic sources in Islamabad.
Pakistan has been mediating between Iran and the United States, with Naqvi previously in Tehran on Saturday to “facilitate” the peace process, according to Iranian media.
During his previous visit to Tehran in recent days, the Pakistani minister met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni, according to Iranian media.
Speaking during a meeting with the Pakistan interior minister on Monday, Araghchi said Iran remains deeply suspicious of the US establishment due to what he described as repeated breaches of promises in the past, ISNA news agency reported.
Regional tensions have remained high since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, prompting retaliatory attacks by Tehran against Israel and US allies in the Gulf, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
A ceasefire took effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but talks in Islamabad failed to produce a lasting agreement. US President Donald Trump later extended the truce indefinitely while maintaining a blockade on vessels traveling to or from Iranian ports through the strategic waterway.
Source: Saudi Gazette