By Tohid Asadi, Aljazeera, 11 April 2026
Reporting from Tehran, Iran
We know that the Iranian delegation is going there to stop the war and that the war is putting a huge amount of pressure on civilians living inside the country.
For 40 days, they were experiencing attacks after attacks targeting civilians and infrastructure, and the naming of the delegation as Minab 168 symbolises one of the first attacks on the very first day, when an elementary school was targeted in the city of Minab, where over 168 student girls and teachers were killed.
We know that more than 800 schools, more than 30 universities, healthcare facilities, and a long list of other infrastructural facilities were targeted as a result of this campaign of strikes.
So, the message or the interpretation is that first, Iran is trying to put an end to this suffering and pain that civilians have been witnessing over the past weeks as a result of war, but it also symbolises a diplomatic opportunity that Iran is trying to settle down the issue.
That is more than crystal clear when it comes to the delegation that you see in Islamabad, showing how serious Iran tries to be when it comes to the potential for diplomatic settlement.
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