India, April 11 -- Iran sent a message ahead of the all-important Islamabad talks scheduled to take place over the weekend between them and the US. When Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf boarded the flight along with foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, he posted a photo from the plane.

This was not just an announcement of Tehran's leadership heading to Pakistan, it was a message on how Iran intended to approach the negotiations.

In the photo shared by Ghalibaf, he is seen standing against empty seats in the plane, each bearing images of schoolchildren killed in a missile strike on a school in Minab at the start of the war. Iran has alleged that the strike was carried out by the United States, while Washington has distanced...