{"id":2998,"date":"2026-10-20T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:03:44","slug":"field-marshal-asim-munir-to-visit-iran-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Field Marshal Asim Munir to visit Iran today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir is due to visit Tehran on Tuesday (today), according \u200bto a Pakistani \u200bofficial and Iranian media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan \u2060has played a \u200bkey mediating role \u200bbetween the US and Iran this year.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the two sides are likely to discuss bilateral cooperation, key issues and the regional situation.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled \u200bvisit follows earlier \u200btalks between Field Marshal Asim Munir and Iranian \u200cleaders \u2060in the summer that focused on measures to prevent \u200bfurther \u200bescalation, \u2060reopening of the Strait of \u200bHormuz and \u200ban \u2060expedited termination of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is playing a mediator role in negotiations between Iran and the US aimed at ending the conflict, which began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes amid escalating tensions in Yemen, where the country\u2019s internationally recognised government forces were engaged in intense fighting with Houthi fighters, who have also launched missiles at Saudi Arabia in recent days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir is due to visit Tehran on Tuesday (today), according \u200bto a Pakistani \u200bofficial and Iranian media. Pakistan \u2060has played a \u200bkey mediating role \u200bbetween the US and Iran this year. During the visit, the two sides are likely to discuss bilateral cooperation, key issues and the regional situation. The scheduled \u200bvisit follows earlier \u200btalks between Field Marshal Asim Munir and Iranian \u200cleaders \u2060in the summer that focused on measures to prevent \u200bfurther \u200bescalation, \u2060reopening&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}