Iran war impact on upcoming US midterm elections worries Republicans

Pakistan is increasingly positioning itself as one of the Middle East’s most important diplomatic players.

Meanwhile, the new head of the Islamic Republic's top security body warned, in a more forceful tone, of retaliation if neighboring countries support U.S. threats to further sanction Tehran.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has defended a memorandum of understanding with the United States as the best path towards ending the nearly six-month war, as Tehran faces further US economic pressure.

The Pakistani military’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), as well as the Foreign Ministry and Information Ministry, did not respond to Al Jazeera’s requests for comment on the visit, which was unusually announced by Tehran rather than Islamabad.