Iranian Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (R) speaking with Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir (L) during their meeting in Tehran.. AFP
"Field Marshal Asim Munir, Commander of the Pakistan Army, who travelled to our country Wednesday, met and held talks with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf... this Thursday morning, April 16," the report said.
After more than five weeks of war that saw the killing of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and top security official Ali Larijani, Ghalibaf is widely seen as Iran's top negotiator, and he travelled last weekend to Pakistan for a first round of talks with the United States.
There were no further details on the contents of the latest meeting, which came a day after Munir arrived in Tehran with his delegation, bringing what Iranian state television described as a message from the United States.
The first round of talks in Islamabad ended without any breakthrough, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday that further talks "would very likely" be in Islamabad.
Munir wore military fatigues in the meeting, and Ghalibaf, a veteran of Iran's Revolutionary Guards ideological army, a dark suit and white shirt without a tie, as is customary for Iranian officials, pictures broadcast by state media showed.
Ghalibaf and his delegation had on Saturday held closed-door talks in Islamabad with US Vice President JD Vance, in the highest-level Iran-US contacts since before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi said no date had been set for the next round of talks.
Further cementing his status as Iran's key negotiator, Ghalibaf told Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri in telephone talks on Thursday that a ceasefire in Lebanon was "as important" as in Iran.
The meeting comes as President Donald Trump announced the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak later on Thursday about halting the fighting between them. It was not clear what leaders Trump was referring to.
However, Aoun earlier spoke to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio where he refused to have a direct call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has insisted on achieving a ceasefire ahead of continued direct talks. Israel hasn’t made a decision regarding a ceasefire.
A Lebanese official told AP that Aoun explained to Rubio that direct talks with Netanyahu at this point would be inappropriate given the ongoing airstrikes and destruction in Lebanon and the lack of a ceasefire in place.
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