Pakistan’s army chief back in Iran: Can he break peace talks deadlock?
Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is traveling to Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials, Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. It will be Munir’s third visit to Iran this year as Islamabad continues its push to mediate an end to the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.
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- Fact 1: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir at the Nur Khan Airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on April 24, 2026 [Handout/Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP Photo]He returned in May, arriving hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had been “slight progress” in talks between Washington and Tehran.
- Fact 2: Three Pakistani sailors were killed and several others wounded when Houthi forces struck a Tanzania-flagged commercial vessel in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on August 11.
- Fact 3: The 60-day window set out in the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by Pakistan, Iran and the US on June 17, lapsed in mid-August without either side agreeing to extend it.
- Fact 4: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif greet each other before the start of a quadrilateral meeting between the US, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar at the Lake Lucerne Summit, on June 21, 2026 [Nathan Howard/Pool via Getty Images]Iran has kept the Strait of Hormuz shut, insisting that Washington first lift its naval blockade, end oil sanctions, unfreeze Iranian assets abroad and halt military threats.
Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is traveling to Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials, Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. It will be Munir’s third visit to Iran this year as Islamabad continues its push to mediate an end to the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.
Iran holds firm on Hormuz conditions as Pakistan’s Naqvi visits Tehran US-Iran MoU ends: What happens next? Iran signals readiness for ‘US ground operations’ as strategy shifts gear Iran prepares to keep economy alive as US threatens further sanctions Pakistani officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Al Jazeera that the trip would take place but declined to elaborate on its agenda. The Pakistani military’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), as well as the Foreign Ministry and Information Ministry, did not respond to Al Jazeera’s requests for comment on the visit, which was unusually announced by Tehran rather than Islamabad.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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