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Some of their demands is the release of $6 billion in frozen assets, an end to a tax it wants guaranteed surrounding its nuclear program.
And it's also demand changes to how shipping happens through the Strait of Hormuz.
It appears they want to charge ships for passing through, which is new.
Suggesting the last-minute nature of the talks, Pakistan's foreign minister posted an official letter on X. It asked authorities to ensure delegates could enter the country with a visa on arrival.
Hundreds of police, soldiers and paramilitary forces cordoned off a two-mile radius around Islamabad's upscale Serena Hotel, where delegates are expected to stay.
Talks to end the latest Mideast war are expected this weekend, but there's already concern that they're in peril.
Israel bombarded Beirut shortly after the ceasefire was announced on Tuesday, killing more than 250 people.
Israel and the US say the fight against the Iranian proxy Hezbollah isn't part of the ceasefire.
The foreign minister Ishaq Dar's post on X is the first time Pakistan has publicly acknowledged it is mediating talks.
In the post, Dar tagged the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Aragshi.
But Aragshi earlier said his country rejects the 15-point proposal.
Iran has countered with its own five conditions to end the war, including payment for damages.
This comes amid a flurry of activity in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to mediate an end to the US and Israeli war on Iran.
And according to an official in Islamabad not authorised to speak to NPR publicly, Pakistan's powerful interior minister recently held a secret meeting with Iran's ambassador.
Dia Hadid, NPR News, Moira, India.
It took us months to find the woman we are calling H. She asks that we don't use her name because she fears for her safety.
She works in an industry that is so underground, so secretive, that to find her, my co-reporter Shweta Desai has to go through a chain of people, each suspicious of who we are and what we're doing.
And then H, well, Shweta is on the phone with her for weeks before she agrees to meet us in person at a cafe in a commuter town near Mumbai.