{"id":561657,"date":"2026-07-27T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561657\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T10:06:09","slug":"esmail-baghaei-we-will-never-allow-us-to-determine-war-timing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561657\/","title":{"rendered":"Esmail Baghaei: \u2018We will never allow US to determine war timing\u2019 &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Iran has rejected any suggestion that the United States could influence decisions over war and peace, saying Tehran will continue to defend itself based on its own interests and circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Speaking to reporters in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said: \u201cWe certainly have never allowed \u2014 and we never will allow \u2014 the US to determine the timing of war and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to defend ourselves for as long as our interests require it and our circumstances demand it,\u201d Baghaei added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has rejected any suggestion that the United States could influence decisions over war and peace, saying Tehran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[181100,42,87,43,114994,3336,40,38,41,39,208,2201],"class_list":["post-561657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-esmail-baghaei","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561657","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=561657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}