Iran on Saturday offered to mediate between Islamabad and New Delhi on the issue of Kashmir, if both the neighbouring states wanted it to play a role.
“Iran is a close friend of India as well as Pakistan. We would like the relations between our friends to improve. We are ready to do whatever we can, if both our friends so desire,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a special address on “Fighting against terrorism and extremism as a global menace” in New Delhi.
“If Iran can be of any help, we stand ready; we are not volunteering, we stand ready,” he said, adding that “the three countries share common ideas of future democratic international system”.
Zarif further voiced Iran’s hopes ‘to move forward to a better relation between its very dear friends, India and Pakistan’.