Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses a special session at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 2026. Pierre Albouy/Reuters Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Sunday as tensions flared between Tehran and Washington. “Both leaders exchanged views on the evolving regional situation,” according to a readout from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It added they agreed to remain in close contact. Pakistan is a key mediator in negotiations between the US and Iran. Araghchi traveled to Muscat on Saturday for a meeting with his Omani counterpart. According to a source, Oman has drafted a proposal to manage traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a key sticking point in the conflict. Mediators have been pushing to revive diplomacy between the US and Iran as they traded fire this week. The leaders of both countries also issued public threats...

US President Donald Trump’s promise to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors has given a glimmer of hope to millions of Ukrainians terrorized by Russia’s deadly ballistic missiles strikes. Speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump said a “little birdie told me … that we’ll give them the right to make Patriots.” The announcement came as a surprise, even though Ukraine has been working on the issue for years, and there were some indications a deal could be close. Sat next to Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky at times looked like he almost couldn’t believe his luck. The two men share a rocky relationship and the flareup in the war in Iran appeared to have put Trump into a foul mood just before his meeting with Zelensky. Trump’s language was rather vague, and he admitted that he had not yet discussed the issue with the US companies...

The truck carrying the coffins of the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family makes its way through mourners during the funeral procession toward Azadi Tower in Tehran, on Monday, July 6. Vahid Salemi/AP Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, thanked what he described as the “tens of millions” of people he said attended recent funeral ceremonies for his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a purported message released by Iranian media today. There were no signs that Mojtaba attended the days-long funeral events after significant speculation about his whereabouts and health. “On this occasion, I sincerely thank the tens of millions of people whose astonishing, enemy-defeating and historic presence filled the cities and villages of Iran and Iraq, especially Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala and Mashhad,” Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency cited Mojtaba as saying. Khamenei’s funeral events were crowded with millions of mourners, but...