Pakistan’s Sharif and Munir Push Iran Toward Deal in Tehran Visit
Iran today hosted Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, who met with Iran’s political and military leadership and pushed for Tehran to agree to the proposed agreement. The Sharif-Munir Sunday visit follows Munir’s “short but highly productive” visit on Saturday and is the most senior Pakistani diplomatic deployment since the negotiating process began. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also spoke with European and regional counterparts and the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres today, seeking to defuse tensions.
Three senior Iranian officials said today that Iran had agreed to a memorandum of understanding that would stop the fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The three officials said a few hours before Trump’s Truth Social announcement that Iran had sent a draft of the agreement to the White House for the President’s approval. It is not clear whether the proposal the Iranian officials said they had agreed upon is the same draft Trump referred to in his social media post. The discrepancy between US-side optimism and Iranian-side caveats — particularly on Hormuz control and uranium handover — is the binding test for whether the framework crystallises into a signed agreement.