The head of Pakistan’s armed forces met Iranian officials in Tehran Thursday, including senior negotiators, as efforts intensify to arrange a new round of U.S.-Iran peace talks that could again be hosted in Islamabad.
Iranian state television showed Field Marshal Asim Munir meeting Iran's speaker of parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led the Iranian delegation at the first U.S.-Iran meeting in Pakistan last week, which ended without a deal.
Earlier, in Washington, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had told reporters that further talks "would very likely" be in the Pakistani capital. "Those discussions are being had," Leavitt said, and "we feel good about the prospects of a deal."
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said no date had been set for the next round of talks.
"Our role as a mediator and facilitator did not stop when the Islamabad talks, this last round, concluded – it continued," he said.
