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Naqvi in Tehran
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on Tuesday, August 11, for high-level talks with Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as Islamabad continued its diplomatic push to mediate between Iran and the United States.
“Mohsin Naqvi arrived in Tehran on Tuesday, August 11”
IRNA said Naqvi was scheduled to meet Eskandar Momeni to discuss issues concerning Iran-Pakistan relations, and that the visit was framed around bilateral issues and matters of mutual interest.
In parallel, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Bloomberg that Tehran and Washington are nearing “some form of an agreement,” while official details on the talks’ precise content and progress remained undisclosed by both sides.
An Anadolu Ajansı report tied Asif’s remarks to Naqvi’s meeting in Tehran as Islamabad renewed its push to resolve the Hormuz standoff and restart stalled talks.
The same Anadolu Ajansı account said a Pakistani government source told it that Naqvi would share "some new proposals" with Iranian leadership to resolve the standoff, without providing details of the proposals.
Hormuz conditions
As Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said the United States and Iran were close to “some sort of arrangement” over the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian officials stressed that reopening the waterway remained conditional on ending the war, changing Washington’s behavior, and releasing frozen funds.
The Al Jazeera-linked account in The Express Tribune quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying the US “begged” Iran to negotiate, recalling that Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” at the beginning of the war.
In the same broader reporting, Anadolu Ajansı said the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on June 17 and launched negotiations toward a final agreement, but talks stalled over disagreements on security guarantees and freedom of navigation through Hormuz.
Arab News PK reported that Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi was in Tehran amid tensions between the US and Iran, and that Trump had threatened to hit Iran “very hard,” potentially with attacks against civilian infrastructure, before hinting a peace deal was near.
The Al Jazeera-linked reporting also said Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari described Iran-Oman Hormuz talks as reaching an "advanced stage" and urged reopening “as soon as possible.”
What comes next
Pakistani mediation efforts were described as ongoing even as the diplomatic track between Iran and the United States showed “stagnation,” with Iran’s reopening of the Strait of Hormuz paired with the United States again imposing a naval blockade on it.
“the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen unless the United States changes its behavior”
The Al Jazeera-linked reporting in The Express Tribune said Araghchi also told a televised news conference that Iran showed the world it is “a tough and invincible power,” while Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen unless the United States changes its behavior and accepts Iran’s conditions.
Reuters was cited in the Al Jazeera-linked text for a drop in ships transiting, from about 130–140 per day before the war to six on Monday, as Trump said the US Navy controls the Strait of Hormuz “100 percent.”
In parallel, Mehr News Agency said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi received visiting Pakistan’s Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi and his accompanying delegation for a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.
Across the same reporting stream, the stakes were framed around whether the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and whether the US-Iran war would end, with the Al Jazeera-linked text stating that the Strait will remain closed until all conditions are met.