Pakistan military ‘cautiously optimistic’ on Iran-US mediation

Pakistan’s military is “cautiously optimistic” about its mediation between Iran and the US, its spokesman said Friday in his first interview since a high-level delegation visited Tehran this week. Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir — Pakistan’s chief mediator in its efforts to de-escalate the now eight-month-old Iran war — has been to Tehran twice this month, most recently on Monday alongside…