{"id":495697,"date":"2026-03-26T03:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495697\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:31:46","slug":"trump-says-iran-afraid-to-admit-to-talks-as-tehran-rejects-reports-of-dialogue-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495697\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran ‘afraid’ to admit to talks as Tehran rejects reports of dialogue – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Trump any closer to an Iran exit strategy?published at 01:42 GMT<\/p>\n

01:42 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Daniel Bush
Washington correspondent<\/p>\n

Trump appears increasingly interested in finding an off-ramp with Iran, or what he calls “winding down” the war. <\/p>\n

But his exit strategy is unclear – and the US president’s mixed messaging suggests he’s still undecided about what would work best: ramping up the conflict to try to end it as quickly as possible, or pushing for a negotiated settlement with Tehran. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Trump signalled the US may pursue both strategies at once. In a matter of hours, the Pentagon ordered ground troops to Iran, and US negotiators sent the Iranian regime a new 15-point peace plan. <\/p>\n

By Wednesday, the White House was urging Iran to accept the deal while threatening to hit the country harder than ever if it didn’t, stoking further confusion about Trump’s intentions. <\/p>\n

“President Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters. “Iran should not miscalculate again.”<\/p>\n

Read Daniel Bush’s analysis on Trump’s mixed messaging. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Trump any closer to an Iran exit strategy?published at 01:42 GMT 01:42 GMT Daniel BushWashington correspondent Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-495697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}