Iran Foreign Minister Meets Pakistan Army Chief as Truce With U.S. Holds

Iran’s foreign minister, whose country is in a temporary truce with the United States, met with a key Pakistani figure in Islamabad, Pakistan’s role as a mediator drew renewed attention.

Yonhap reported on the 25th that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir in the Pakistani capital.

Munir has been involved in U.S.-Iran talks aimed at ending the war and is described as a central figure in Pakistan’s government.

Details of the meeting were not disclosed, but observers said Iran and mediator Pakistan likely discussed a second round of talks on ending the war.

The New York Times, citing two senior Iranian officials, reported that Araghchi would meet in Pakistan with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s eldest son-in-law, to keep negotiations going.

The United States and Iran previously held a first round of talks in Islamabad on April 11-12, but they collapsed. A second round expected on April 21 also did not take place.