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This is reported in the US media. Iran also says: we cannot say the breakthrough is imminent
Pakistani army chief Munir met Ghalibaf in Tehran
Iran’s chief negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf met with Pakistani army chief Asim Munir in Tehran as part of ongoing diplomatic efforts to ease regional tensions, according to Iranian state media reports. During his visit to Iran, Munir also met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in the presence of Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.
Al Arabiya, ‘Iran’s proposals unacceptable to the US’
“A senior Iranian source told Al Arabiya that what Iran has proposed so far is unacceptable to the United States.” This was reported in a post on X by the Saudi-owned broadcaster based in Dubai, in the Emirates.
Iranian observer, ‘real truce in Lebanon key to negotiations with US’
Negotiations between Washington and Tehran “will be able to move forward” in the event that “Iran succeeds in achieving a true ceasefire in Lebanon and an end to the war on all fronts”: this is the view expressed by Iranian observer Foad Izadi, an associate professor at the University of Tehran, in an interview with Al Jazeera. “Lebanon is the key,” Izadi added, pointing out that at the moment there is a truce between Israel and Hezbollah in the country “only on paper” and that reaching an end to this conflict would be “the test to see” whether US President Donald Trump “can finally have an independent foreign policy”. Indeed, the Iranian academic points out that “the general consensus in Tehran is that this is the war” of Israeli PM Netanyahu and that the latter “has managed to drag the US president along with him”. According to Izadi himself, the Iranian leadership would be willing to “accept concessions” on its nuclear programme, but with one condition: that these concessions be “accompanied by an easing of the sanctions in force and the release of frozen Iranian assets
