{"id":57021,"date":"2026-04-25T16:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57021"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:31:43","slug":"iran-says-it-will-not-accept-maximalist-us-demands-as-pakistan-pursues-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57021","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it will not accept &#8216;maximalist&#8217; US demands as Pakistan pursues peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD\/WASHINGTON, April 25  &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi laid out Iran&#8217;s demands and its reservations about U.S. positions on Saturday as Pakistan made a new push to end a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">war<\/a>\u00a0that has killed thousands and shaken global energy markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After holding talks with \u200bPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other top officials, Araqchi and his delegation flew out of Pakistan&#8217;s capital Islamabad with a military jet escort, government sources said. Details of the \u200ctalks were scant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House had earlier said President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner would travel to Islamabad on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not immediately clear if or when Araqchi would return to Pakistan. Iran has previously ruled out a new round of direct talks with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington and Tehran are at an impasse as Iran has largely closed the Strait of Hormuz, which normally carries one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, while the U.S. blocks Iran&#8217;s oil exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) ISLAMABAD\/WASHINGTON, April 25 &#8211; Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi laid out Iran&#8217;s demands and its reservations about U.S. positions on Saturday as Pakistan made a new push to end a\u00a0war\u00a0that has killed thousands and shaken global energy markets. After holding talks with \u200bPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other top officials, Araqchi and his delegation flew out of Pakistan&#8217;s capital Islamabad with a military jet escort, government sources said. Details of the \u200ctalks were scant. The White House had earlier said President&nbsp;Donald Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner would travel to Islamabad on Saturday. It was not immediately&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57023,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57021\/revisions\/57023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}