TEHRAN (The Thursday Times) — Pakistan’s embassy in Tehran on Sunday rejected reports that its ambassador, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, had been attacked in the Iranian capital, calling them “baseless and factually incorrect”.
The embassy said in a statement on X, in English and Persian, that it had taken note of reports circulating on social media and other forums about the ambassador. Posts online had claimed that he was attacked by several people after being invited to a gathering.
Hours later, the embassy shared photographs of Siddiqui meeting Mehdi Safari-Nia, the president of Pardis Technology Park, to discuss cooperation in education and technology, and standing beside a statue of the Pakistani scientist Prof Muhammad Iqbal Chaudhry in the park’s Scientists’ Garden. It did not say when the visit took place.
The rumours spread as Pakistan and Qatar press on with mediation between Iran and the United States. Islamabad helped broker the June memorandum of understanding that collapsed in August, and Field Marshal Asim Munir has travelled to Tehran several times during the war.
