Pakistan, Aug. 16 -- Pakistan and Qatar are exchanging messages between Iran and the United States, but the contacts do not amount to negotiations and Tehran has yet to decide whether to resume talks with Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview widely reported on Saturday.

Pakistan led a months-long diplomatic push to end the US-Iran conflict that produced an interim peace agreement in June, with Qatar joining the mediation effort more directly as the negotiations progressed. The deal was intended to end hostilities and provide a 60-day window for negotiations on a permanent settlement, but later unraveled amid renewed US strikes on Iran and Iranian attacks on US interests in the region.

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