Pahalgam assault: Iran presents assist in restoring India-Pakistan relations

Iran on Friday provided its assist in mending relations between India and Pakistan, amid flared tensions after the Pahalgam terror assault. International minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi mentioned Tehran stands prepared to make use of its good places of work in Islamabad and New Delhi to “forge better understanding at this tough time”.

Agarchi had condemned the Pahalgam assault “strongly and unequivocally” two days in the past.

Terrorists opened hearth in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on 22 April, killing 26 folks, principally vacationers, within the deadliest assault within the Kashmir Valley because the Pulwama strike in 2019. The Resistance Entrance (TRF), an affiliate of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed duty for the assault.

In a put up on X, Araghchi drew consideration to how India and Pakistan are “brotherly neighbours” of Iran, having fun with relations rooted in centuries-old cultural and civilisational ties and the way, like different neighbours, Iran considers the 2 of them as “our foremost precedence”.

“Tehran stands prepared to make use of its good places of work in Islamabad and New Delhi to forge better understanding at this tough time, according to the spirit taught by Persian poet Saadi,” Araghchi mentioned within the put up.