Pakistan’s interior minister on Saturday arrived in Tehran in a bid to revive stalled peace talks between Iran and the United States, Iranian media reported.
“Mohsin Naqvi arrived today in the Islamic Republic of Iran on an official two-day visit as part of Pakistan’s ongoing efforts to facilitate talks and promote regional peace,” the Tasnim news agency reported.
Islamabad has been actively mediating in the peace negotiations between Iran and the US. It hosted a high-stakes meeting between both sides last month, which ended without a breakthrough.
The fragile ceasefire has largely paused the fighting that erupted following US-Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28.
On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran had received messages from Washington indicating that President Donald Trump’s administration was willing to continue talks.
Meanwhile, Iran’s chief negotiator and parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said on Tuesday that Washington should accept Tehran’s proposal for peace afterTrump rejected an Iranian counteroffer.
“There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.
Any other approach will be completely inconclusive; nothing but one failure after another,” Qalibaf said in a social media post.
