Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Tuesday night, according to N12's Asaf Rozentzweig. Naqvi also held a separate meeting with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during the visit.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran overnight, according to a report by N12's Asaf Rozentzweig, confirming the continuation of Pakistani mediation efforts to revive stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations. Rozentzweig's report also noted that Naqvi held a separate meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi earlier Tuesday evening.
The diplomatic engagement unfolded over Tuesday afternoon and evening. Initial reports from Iranian media indicated Naqvi's arrival in Tehran as part of ongoing Pakistani mediation. Within hours, Channel 12 reported a formal meeting between Naqvi and Foreign Minister Araghchi, which was later corroborated by visual documentation published by the Iranian source Hadshot Iran. That source subsequently reported that Naqvi had also met with President Pezeshkian, noting the minister's previous role as a messenger between Iran and the United States. The overnight N12 report, citing named reporter Asaf Rozentzweig, provided the fullest confirmation of both meetings, expanding the thread from initial single-source reporting to multiple corroborated outlets including Israeli and Iranian media.
The Zioneer has previously documented Pakistan's deepening role as a diplomatic backchannel in U.S.-Iran talks. As The Zioneer reported on June 17, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi stated that a venue in Switzerland was being examined for a direct Trump-Pezeshkian signing. Additional reporting on June 20 covered Araghchi's meeting with Pakistan's interior minister, and on June 23, President Pezeshkian met with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad. On June 24, The Zioneer reported that Sharif was expected to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and a follow-up on July 10 noted discussions between Pezeshkian and Sharif on regional developments. Tuesday night's meetings mark the latest instance of Pakistan's shuttle diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.
No immediate statement on the content of the discussions or next steps has been reported. It remains unclear whether the meetings produced any concrete progress toward resuming negotiations or setting a timeline.
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