{"id":124293,"date":"2026-05-21T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/124293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:13:08","slug":"iran-media-say-mediator-pakistans-army-chief-due-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/124293\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran media say mediator Pakistan\u2019s army chief due in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"570\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c0871ddd-asim-munir-20042026.webp\"\/>Field Marshal Asim Munir\u2019s visit comes after Pakistan\u2019s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi travelled to Iran on Wednesday and met president Masoud Pezeshkian. (AFP pic)<br \/>\nTEHRAN: Iranian media reported that Pakistan\u2019s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir was due in Tehran on Thursday, with Islamabad mediating as Iran examines the latest US proposal to end the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Iran\u2019s ISNA news agency said Munir\u2019s visit was aimed at continuing \u201ctalks and consultations\u201d with Iranian authorities but did not provide details. Other Iranian media carried the same report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Munir\u2019s visit comes after Pakistan\u2019s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi travelled to Iran on Wednesday and met president Masoud Pezeshkian and foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Pakistan, Iran\u2019s eastern neighbour, has been mediating between Tehran and Washington in an effort to end the war, which broke out on Feb 28 when the US and Israel launched attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">A ceasefire agreement since April 8 has halted hostilities but US President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that the window for diplomacy was closing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cIt\u2019s right on the borderline, believe me,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cIf we don\u2019t get the right answers, it goes very quickly. We\u2019re all ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Tehran\u2019s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Wednesday accused Washington of seeking to restart the war after Trump threatened renewed attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Ghalibaf warned of a \u201cforceful response\u201d from Iran, while the country\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said any renewed conflict would spread far beyond the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Wednesday that Tehran was examining points received from Washington while repeating Iran\u2019s demands for the release of its assets frozen abroad and an end to a US naval blockade of Iranian ports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Field Marshal Asim Munir\u2019s visit comes after Pakistan\u2019s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi travelled to Iran on Wednesday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[211,16814,10512,38,34,23687,28266,15686,187,16256,69,25494],"class_list":["post-124293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-asim-munir","tag-ceasefire-talks","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iran-diplomacy","tag-iran-pakistan","tag-iran-us-talks","tag-middle-east-war","tag-pakistan-mediation","tag-tehran","tag-tehran-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116611567088886260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}