Fact-check: Did Iran's president visit Imran Khan in jail?

Iran’s embassy in Pakistan has refuted online claims of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi meeting with Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan

Geo Fact-Check

Saman Amjad

Updated Monday Apr 29 2024

Social media has been inundated with posts claiming that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan in jail during the latter’s three-day official visit to Pakistan in April.

The claims are incorrect.

Claim

A user on X (formerly Twitter) posted, "Iranian president meets Imran Khan in Adiala Jail and announced to play a role to get him out of jail,” on April 22.

The user further claimed that politicians Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Parvez Elahi were also present during the meeting.

"The Iranian president promised to play a role in releasing Imran Khan from jail,” the user added.

The post was shared alongside a video allegedly showing the news being aired on Pakistani news channels.

The post has been viewed over 100,000 times and liked nearly 900 times to date.

Similar claims also took off on TikTok here, here and here.

Fact

Iran's embassy in Pakistan has refuted the online claims of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi meeting with Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, who has been incarcerated in a prison in Rawalpindi, Punjab, since August.

"Embassy of Iran disclaims such misinformation,” a senior official at the embassy told Geo Fact Check over the phone, who asked not to be named. “All the meetings and calls [in Pakistan] were scheduled with the official leaders and authorities of the country.”

Separately, Geo Fact Check could find no news reports or any other evidence to support the claims that the Iranian president met Khan during the latter’s visit from April 22-24.