{"id":73993,"date":"2026-05-25T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/iran-denies-deal-with-us-is-imminent-despite-some-progress\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:55:09","slug":"iran-denies-deal-with-us-is-imminent-despite-some-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/iran-denies-deal-with-us-is-imminent-despite-some-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran denies deal with US is imminent despite some progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran says \u2018contradictory statements\u2019 from US and Israeli interference hindering negotiations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/25\/iran-war-news-middle-east-crisis-oil-price-us-tehran-peace-talks-deal-strait-hormuz\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as key factors in why a complete agreement is proving difficult to secure.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the weekly foreign ministry press briefing, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran\u2019s negotiating team, also said future management of the strait of Hormuz was a matter for Oman and Iran to reach agreement on, and that it was not tolls that were being proposed but \u201cfees for navigational services\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/25\/iran-denies-deal-us-imminent-israel-oman-strait-of-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran says \u2018contradictory statements\u2019 from US and Israeli interference hindering negotiations Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates Iran has poured cold water on suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent, pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as key factors in why a complete agreement is proving difficult to secure. &#8230; <a title=\"Iran denies deal with US is imminent despite some progress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/iran-denies-deal-with-us-is-imminent-despite-some-progress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Iran denies deal with US is imminent despite some progress\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}