Israel has removed the names of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bayr Galibaf from the list of Iranian officials it wants to eliminate after Pakistan asked the US not to target them, a Pakistani official told Reuters.

“The Israelis had … their coordinates and they wanted to neutralize them, we told the US that if they were neutralized as well, then there would be no one to talk to, so the US asked the Israelis to back down,” the official pointed out.