The Western media has failed to report on the Pakistan PM’s unequivocal statement that the US–Iran MOU did not mention ballistic missiles.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, one of the signatories to the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the US, has called out what he says are double standards and duplicity by those trying to wreck the peace deal. His short, memorable statement was largely ignored in the western media but its content should be digested by all.

Sharif addressed his comments directly to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who arrived in Pakistan on 23 June. The Iranian delegation had just flown in on a plane named Minab 168 – in memory of the 168 children and staff killed in an attack on an Iranian girls’ school by US and Israeli forces at the outset of the US-Israel attack on Iran.

He was speaking a day after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Gulf foreign ministers issued a joint statement that ’lasting regional peace and security requires addressing the full spectrum of Iran’s threats, including its ballistic missiles, drones, and support of........

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