IAEA chief Grossi speaks by phone with Pakistan's foreign minister on the regional crisis and the Islamabad memorandum

Pakistan's foreign minister and Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke by phone on Sunday 26 July 2026 (4 Mordad 1405) about the latest regional developments, stressing the need to continue diplomacy and dialogue on the basis of the Islamabad memorandum. Both sides expressed hope that the regional crisis would reach a peaceful outcome.

Islamabad has in recent weeks been one of the mediation channels working to restart talks between Iran and the United States. No further detail of the call was released.

The course of the nuclear file and of regional diplomacy is among the variables shaping inflation expectations and the exchange rate in Iran's market.