BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 10. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi will visit Pakistan.
This was announced by the press service of the Iranian MFA, citing spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei's announcement at a press conference in Tehran on August 10.
“Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi have been invited to Pakistan. This visit will take place when the appropriate conditions are in place. The main purpose of the visit is to discuss bilateral relations,” he said.
Baghaei noted that relations between Iran and Pakistan are very
important. Reciprocal visits by officials from the two countries,
which have very close and developing relations, are a natural
occurrence. Over the past 10 days, several Iranian ministers have
visited Pakistan.
Since no concrete results had been achieved between the U.S. and
Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear program, on February 28, the U.S. and
Israel carried out military airstrikes against Iran, and since that
day, Iran has been firing missiles and drones at Israeli and U.S.
targets in the region. On April 7, a ceasefire agreement between
the parties was reached through Pakistan’s mediation.
On June 18, a peace memorandum was signed between Iran and the United States. The memorandum was signed by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and U.S. President Donald Trump. The memorandum entered into force on June 19.
Meanwhile, the next escalation in U.S.-Iranian relations began on July 8. On that day, for the first time since the signing of the memorandum between Washington and Tehran, U.S. forces launched a series of strikes on Iranian territory, allegedly in response to an attack on a merchant ship in the Strait of Hormuz. On the same day, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the suspension of the ceasefire with Iran. In response, Tehran began striking U.S. targets located in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Oman. Iran claims that the Strait of Hormuz is currently closed.
