Pakistani Minister Arrives In Tehran To Press Struggling Peace Process

02:22 7.6.2026

Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has arrived in Tehran as part of Islamabad’s diplomatic drive to bring an end the US war with Iran, even as new attacks were reported over the previous 24 hours.

News agency dpa cited Pakistani security and diplomatic sources as saying high-level meetings with Iranian government officials were planned for June 7. Naqvi last visited Tehran in mid-May.

The Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported that Naqvi would meet with Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi.

Iran’s ISNA news agency reported that Naqvi was expected to deliver a message from powerful Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

Munir has taken a lead role in Islamabad’s efforts to mediate talks between Tehran and Washington.

Although a shaky cease-fire has officially held, US and Iranian forces have conducted military operations several times since the April 8 beginning of the truce.

Late on June 6, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces in the Middle East shot down two Iranian attack drones that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Earlier in the day, CENTCOM said ⁠it hit Iranian coastal radar stations in“self-defense” strikes hours after Tehran launched attack drones toward the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran’s hard-line Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) then retaliated for those strikes by firing at least seven ballistic missiles toward US-linked sites in Kuwait and Bahrain.

Meanwhile, Reuters and ABC TV were among media outlets citing sources saying that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has directed a team to assess costs for damage inflicted on Gulf allies by ⁠Iran and that Washington will consider using Iranian assets to undertake repairs.

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