September 13, 2026
A merchant vessel was struck off Qeshm early on Sunday, killing one, hours before Oman convenes Iran-Gulf talks on the Strait of Hormuz that Bahrain has said it will not attend.
July 23, 2026
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni arrived in Islamabad this week carrying a personal message from President Masoud Pezeshkian to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, focused on the evolving regional security situation and Iran's assessment of a diplomatic path forward. Iranian officials described Pakistan as a "brotherly country" and "a second home for all Iranians" — language signalling an unusual depth of diplomatic trust as Pakistan maintains its role as one of the most active neutral channels between Tehran and Washington in the ongoing US-Iran conflict.
July 23, 2026
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has instructed President Masoud Pezeshkian to end what he described as the "neither war nor peace" state that has defined Iran's position since the collapse of the June 17 MOU ceasefire, according to Middle East Monitor. The instruction is being read by regional analysts as a signal that Iran's leadership is open to a new diplomatic framework — but on terms that address the Strait of Hormuz passage dispute at the core of the MOU's collapse. Pakistan's mediation channel remains active, with Iran's Interior Minister having delivered a personal message from Pezeshkian to PM Shehbaz in Islamabad this week.
June 30, 2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Islamabad for his first foreign trip since the US and Israel struck Iran in February, publicly thanking Pakistan for its role in the negotiations that produced the June 18 ceasefire framework and the sixty-day peace process now under way.
June 25, 2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's first post-war foreign trip to Islamabad cements Pakistan's role as US-Iran mediator, but the diplomatic windfall comes tethered to competing Gulf commitments and a fragile ceasefire.
June 24, 2026
Iran's president and PM Shehbaz Sharif reaffirmed a $10 billion trade goal and vowed deeper ties at a joint press conference, but the concluded talks produced no signed agreements and no breakthrough on the stalled gas pipeline — as Pezeshkian declared Iran's missile programme 'shall never' be on any negotiating table.
June 23, 2026
Iran's president makes his first foreign trip since the February war the centrepiece of Pakistan's mediation diplomacy on June 23, meeting Shehbaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari a day after Bürgenstock negotiators agreed a roadmap to a final deal.
May 26, 2025
Listen to the article Iran could survive if negotiations with the US on its nuclear program do not secure an agreement, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, after President Donald Trump described the weekend talks with Tehran as “very good”. Negotiations are aimed at resolving a decades -long conflict over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Trump threatened Iran with assumptions of economic sanctions and bombings if no new nuclear agreement is reached. “It’s not like dying of hunger if they refuse to negotiate with us or impose sanctions,” Pezeshkian said, state -owned media talks with Washington. “We will find a way
September 8, 2024
Iran’s President Massoud Pezheskian will visit neighboring Iraq on Wednesday, state media said on Sunday, in what will be his first trip abroad since taking office in July. Pezeskian will lead a high-level Iranian delegation to Baghdad to meet with senior Iraqi officials. The visit is taking place at the invitation of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad Mohammad Kazem Al-Sadeq. The two countries will sign memorandums of understanding on cooperation and security, Sadegh said, without elaborating. He said the agreements were to have been signed during a planned
July 28, 2024
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) gives a presidential decree to the country’s president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian (right) during an endorsement ceremony in Tehran, Iran, July 28, 2024. — Reuters Khamenei supports the vote of the “popular” Masoud Pezeskian. The supreme leader grants presidential powers in the second round. The president-elect is due to be sworn in before parliament on Tuesday. TEHRAN: Iran’s reformist President-elect Massoud Pezheskian was given presidential powers on Sunday after the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally approved him as Iran’s ninth president. “I support the vote [for] the wise, honest, popular and erudite Pezeshkian,
Editor — Hamza Azhar Salam · Write to us with suggestions or tips
