Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sent warm greetings to Iran's acting Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and praised his leadership for securing the memorandum of understanding and ceasefire "with honor," according to a statement published Tuesday evening. Sharif asserted that Iran's ballistic missiles were never on the table in the talks and that the issue was not discussed. He also expressed condolences over the killing of Iranian civilians, which he said numbered in the thousands.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif issued a lengthy statement Tuesday evening directed at Iran's acting Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, expressing support for the recently signed US-Iran memorandum of understanding, of which Pakistan served as a mediator. Sharif's remarks came hours after reports emerged of his earlier statements regarding Iran's ballistic missiles not being part of the deal — an assertion he repeated Tuesday, stating the issue never came up and that Tehran would not discuss it. He offered condolences for civilian deaths in Iran he said numbered in the thousands, without naming an attacker. The statement also warned of unnamed global actors seeking to sabotage the agreement. As The Zioneer reported on June 8, Sharif had earlier urged restraint in what were then ceasefire negotiations between Iran and Israel. The current statement went further in its alignment with Tehran's official narrative, describing Iran as poised to become one of the world's fastest-growing economies under Khamenei's leadership. No Israeli or US response was immediately available.
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