{"id":7142,"date":"2026-02-17T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:39:15","slug":"irans-president-masoud-pezeshkian-seeks-fair-and-equitable-talks-with-the-us-to-ease-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/17\/irans-president-masoud-pezeshkian-seeks-fair-and-equitable-talks-with-the-us-to-ease-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s President Masoud Pezeshkian seeks &#8216;fair and equitable&#8217; talks with the US to ease tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian has instructed Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to pursue \u201cfair and equitable negotiations\u201d with the United States, signalling Tehran\u2019s openness to talks despite escalating tensions. The move comes after military incidents in the region, including the US shooting down an Iranian drone and clashes in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as threats from former President Donald Trump amid Iran\u2019s crackdown on protesters. Washington confirmed that its special envoy plans to hold discussions with Iranian officials in Turkey, with Ankara and several regional countries involved in facilitating dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 4, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/02\/04\/irans-president-masoud-pezeshkian-seeks-fair-and-equitable-talks-with-the-us-to-ease-tensi\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian has instructed Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to pursue \u201cfair and equitable negotiations\u201d with the United States, signalling Tehran\u2019s openness to talks despite escalating tensions. The move comes after military incidents in the region, including the US shooting down an Iranian drone and clashes in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/7442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}