Iran Gives Additional Package Of Demands To Pakistan’s Naqvi: Will US Meet Them? Exclusive

Iran has given an additional package of demands to Pakistan’s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi who will conclude his visit to the country on Sunday.
According to a top diplomatic source, the new draft package has been handed over to Naqvi. “The new proposal was drafted by merging Iran’s previous 14-point and five-point plan with the United States’ demands,” said the source.

What were US’s conditions?

According to Iranian sources, the US has laid out five conditions in response to Iran’s proposal.
1. ⁠No compensationfrom US
2. ⁠Handover of 400kg of highly enriched uranium to US
3. ⁠Only one nuclear facility to remain active
4. Not even 25% of frozen assets to be released immediately and
5. Halting war on all fronts is contingent on negotiations.

Naqvi conveyed Munir’s message?

Pakistan’s Interior Minister

conveyed field marshal Asim Munir’s message to top Iranian leadership, said a top diplomatic source. “Pakistan is bridging the United States and Iran through ‘to and fro’ messaging. The current message is being sent with ‘high hopes’ for resumption of peace talks in Islamabad. The timing of ‘the message’ is very important as President Trump concluded the China trip and Pakistani top civil military leadership led by PM Shehbaz Sharif is set to visit Beijing on May 23,” said the source.

Mohsin Naqvi’s Iran visit

Naqvi met his Iranian counterpart Eskandar Momeni soon after landing.
Dawn newspaper, quoting unnamed diplomatic sources, reported on Sunday that Naqvi’stwo-day visit came after US President Donald Trump rejected Tehran’s latest response to American proposals.
It also said that Pakistan was continuing shuttle diplomacy aimed at preventing the negotiations from collapsing entirely after momentum generated by earlier rounds of talks in Islamabad slowed sharply.

Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency also described Naqvi’s trip as part of Pakistan’s “ongoing efforts to facilitate dialogue and promote regional peace”.
The visit, officially framed around bilateral and border security cooperation, came as the fragile ceasefire brokered earlier through Pakistani mediation continued to hold unevenly amid intermittent tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and prolonged disruption to global energy shipping.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported that the two sides also discussed border trade, transit, exchange of goods and bilateral cooperation, while describing the recent high-level contacts between Tehran and Islamabad as part of intensified consultations following the Pakistan-mediated ceasefire.

With PTI inputs