Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir will visit Tehran on Monday for talks on bilateral and regional issues, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. The visit comes as Islamabad continues its efforts to revive its mediation role in the stalled US-Iran talks.

An interim peace agreement, which Pakistan signed as a guarantor, fell apart last month after tensions in West Asia rose again and the US and Iran resumed military strikes. Pakistan has not commented so far on Munir’s visit to Tehran.

Iran foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told reporters that Field Marshal Munir will be accompanied by a delegation for high-level talks with the Iranian leadership. He said the visit is aimed at strengthening cooperation between Iran and Pakistan and continuing Pakistan’s efforts to help promote peace and security in the region.

Earlier this month, Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi held talks in Tehran with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Munir’s visit is being widely seen as a follow-up to the stalled Memorandum of Understanding signed in June by the US and Iran. The MoU was meant to open a 60-day window for high-level talks to restore peace in West Asia, but the process collapsed after tensions rose again in mid-July.

Pakistan’s efforts to revive the talks have not produced results so far. A key sticking point remains the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping has been disrupted because of the war that began on February 28 after the US and Israel launched joint attacks on Iran, leading to retaliatory strikes. In normal times, roughly a fifth of the world’s total energy supplies passed through the Gulf chokepoint.

On Sunday, President Pezeshkian defended the MoU as the best way for Iran to move beyond what he described as a situation of “neither war nor peace”. At the same time, Mohsen Rezaei, the hard-line new head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, warned Tehran’s neighbours against joining the new US effort to hurt Iran’s economy.

On August 20, US President Donald Trump said he would launch the “most crushing economic operation” against Iran if Tehran did not reach a deal. Munir’s visit now comes against that backdrop of stalled diplomacy, renewed tensions and Pakistan’s continuing push to help restart the process.

With PTI Inputs

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Aug 23, 2026 17:43 IST