{"id":3380,"date":"2026-10-27T18:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:03:50","slug":"iran-security-chief-meets-supreme-leader-after-talks-with-makkah-pact-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Iran security chief meets Supreme Leader after talks with Makkah pact countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iranian Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei on Tuesday met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, not seen in public since succeeding \u200bhis slain father in March, a day after holding talks \u200cwith representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State media said Khamenei had stressed the importance of pursuing Iran\u2019s interests and maintaining its conditions for ending the \u200bwar.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan visited \u200bTehran on Monday hoping to help de-escalate the Middle East conflict, begun when the US and Israel attacked Iran \u200bin February.<\/p>\n<p>The talks were the first high-level contact between Iran \u200band the three nations \u2014 which signed the Makkah mutual defence pact in August \u2014 since the war pulled Saudi Arabia and Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement \u200binto direct conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s state media said on Tuesday that \u201csafeguarding national \u200band regional security by maintaining control over the Strait of Hormuz and \u200cstrengthening \u2060bilateral relations with neighbouring countries\u201d were among the topics Khamenei and Rezaei had discussed.<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian official told <em>Reuters<\/em> on Monday that there would be no discussion of Iran\u2019s nuclear programme \u200bat Monday\u2019s meeting \u200bwith the \u2060Makkah pact countries, and the issue would not be addressed until Tehran\u2019s demands for ending \u200bthe war were met. Iran rejects Western concerns \u200bthat \u2060the programme is military in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s conditions include an end to a US blockade of Iranian ports and US sanctions on \u2060Iranian \u200boil exports. US Vice President JD \u200bVance said three weeks ago that Iran must reduce nuclear enrichment to end the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Security Council chief Mohsen Rezaei on Tuesday met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, not seen in public since succeeding \u200bhis slain father in March, a day after holding talks \u200cwith representatives of Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan. State media said Khamenei had stressed the importance of pursuing Iran\u2019s interests and maintaining its conditions for ending the \u200bwar. Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan visited \u200bTehran on Monday hoping to help de-escalate the Middle East conflict, begun when the US and Israel attacked Iran \u200bin February. The talks&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-3380","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\/3380","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=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}