{"id":21419,"date":"2026-05-23T04:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21419"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:25:54","slug":"iran-says-u-s-excessive-demands-and-contradictory-positions-are-harming-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/23\/iran-says-u-s-excessive-demands-and-contradictory-positions-are-harming-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says U.S. \u201cexcessive demands\u201d and contradictory positions are harming talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Dr. Sayed Abbas Araghchi, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, during a telephone call with Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, called Washington\u2019s \u201cexcessive demands and contradictory positions\u201d the main obstacles to the negotiation process.<br>According to Tasnim News Agency, Araghchi said that despite Tehran\u2019s lack of trust in the United States, Iran continues to participate seriously and responsibly in diplomatic efforts aimed at reaching a \u201creasonable and fair\u201d outcome.<br>Meanwhile, Guterres stressed the importance of adhering to the principles of the United Nations Charter and said diplomatic solutions should be pursued to preserve regional peace and stability.<br>The remarks come as delegations from Qatar and Pakistan are visiting Tehran in an effort to help resolve remaining differences and advance talks toward a possible agreement between Iran and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Dr. Sayed Abbas Araghchi, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister, during a telephone call with Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, United Nations Secretary General, called Washington\u2019s \u201cexcessive demands and contradictory positions\u201d the main obstacles to the negotiation process.According to Tasnim News Agency, Araghchi said that despite Tehran\u2019s lack of trust in the United States, Iran continues to participate seriously and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21421,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21419\/revisions\/21421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}