{"id":373033,"date":"2026-04-03T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:43:08","slug":"irans-former-top-diplomat-urges-country-to-use-its-upper-hand-to-strike-deal-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373033\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s former top diplomat urges country to &#8216;use its upper hand&#8217; to strike deal with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Zarif, one of the architects of the now moribund 2015 deal over the Iranian nuclear programme, is seen as a relative moderate within the Iranian elite, but has no official post in the current government.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">However, this is one of the first times during this conflict that a high-profile figure in Iran has called for a deal and an end to the war, with top military and political officials urging daily for fighting to continue until the US is defeated.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">US President Donald Trump has evoked ongoing talks with Tehran without giving details, but also threatened to send the country &#8220;back to the stone ages&#8221; if it fails to agree on terms.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;As an Iranian, outraged by Donald Trump&#8217;s reckless aggression and crude insults, yet proud of our armed forces and resilient people, I am torn about publishing this peace-plan in Foreign Affairs,&#8221; Zarif wrote in English on X Friday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;Yet I&#8217;m convinced that war must end on terms consistent with Iran&#8217;s national interests,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Zarif in the Foreign Affairs piece warned that &#8220;although continuing to fight the United States and Israel might be psychologically satisfying, it will lead only to the further destruction of civilian lives and infrastructure&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zarif, one of the architects of the now moribund 2015 deal over the Iranian nuclear programme, is seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-373033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}