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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to fly to the Pakistani capital tonight with a small delegation, in what officials called a key step toward resuming direct talks with the United States aimed at ending their war.
Senior government officials in Islamabad confirmed the development to Al Jazeera, shortly after a series of phone calls between Araghchi and Pakistani leaders on Friday.
For now, Iran's state news agency IRNA said Araghchi's visit to Pakistan was bilateral in nature, to speak with Pakistani officials, rather than holding talks immediately with the U.S. Araghchi, IRNA said, would travel to Moscow and Muscat after Islamabad.
However, a Pakistani official said there was now a "high probability of a breakthrough" between the US and Iran, after days of escalating firepower politics and rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz.
A US delegation led by Vice President JD Vance was expected to arrive in Islamabad earlier this week for talks, but Iran later said it was not prepared to return for talks, citing the naval blockade of its ports. Donald Trump implemented the blockade on April 13, two days after the first round of negotiations between the US and Iran in Islamabad ended without a final result.
Since then, prospects for further talks have been in limbo, with Iran insisting that the US had to lift the blockade before it would return.
Trump has so far refused to lift the blockade, even after Araghchi said Iran would reopen the strait, which it had effectively blocked to most ships since early March.
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