The path that still has no announced talks
Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Monday, on Naqvi's 6th visit since the war began in February. Pezeshkian said US pressure had pushed Islamic countries into closer contact, and Naqvi said ties between Iran and Pakistan had never stood this high.[1]
On Tuesday, Qatari spokesman Majed Al Ansari said Doha was working with Pakistan to open a dialogue path between Iran and the United States, including a possible short-term agreement. Washington issued visas to Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and limited travel and purchases for the rest of the Iranian delegation. No new talks were announced.[1]
The bargain that asks for a guarantee
A day earlier at the Concordia summit in New York, Al Ansari said Gulf states continue to live beside 90 million Iranians however Iran is governed. He called for economic interdependence so that a threat to one shore would cost the other shore something, and he said the arrangement needs security guarantees against an Iranian strike on Gulf countries in a later confrontation. He announced no agreement.[2]
Taken together, the Tehran meeting and the Concordia remarks give Pakistan and Qatar a portfolio: a dialogue path counted in days, and an economic relationship Al Ansari placed after the fighting. The guarantee clause is the price of the longer idea. Another reading is that both steps show governments unable to stop the war and keen to display activity at home.[1], [2]