{"id":499368,"date":"2026-03-28T02:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499368\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:54:09","slug":"us-envoy-hopeful-for-meetings-with-iran-this-week-as-tehran-says-israel-hit-nuclear-sites-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499368\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy &#8216;hopeful&#8217; for meetings with Iran &#8216;this week&#8217;, as Tehran says Israel hit nuclear sites &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-Iran talks: where do they stand?published at 01:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p>01:29 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press before his departure following a G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting with Partner Countries.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e9df5755-2985-40a0-82ea-1f9e485ff893.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5914\" height=\"3327\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donald Trump&#8217;s special envoy Steve Witkoff said earlier that the US is hopeful for meetings with Iran &#8220;this week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at the F11 Priority event in Miami, Witkoff said that the US are talking to Iran, and added: &#8220;We think there will be meetings this week, we&#8217;re certainly hopeful for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ships are passing, that&#8217;s a very very good sign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went to say that Trump wants a peace deal, and later added: &#8220;We have a 15-point deal on the table that the Iranians have had for a bit of time. We expect an answer from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came following earlier comments from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who spoke to reporters outside a G7 meeting in France on Friday and said the US has clear objectives and &#8220;We are very confident we are on the verge of achieving them very soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that the US could achieve its goals &#8220;without any ground troops&#8221;, and when asked how long the US operation is expected to last in Iran, said &#8220;we are talking weeks, not months&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US-Iran talks: where do they stand?published at 01:29 GMT 01:29 GMT Image source, Reuters Donald Trump&#8217;s special envoy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-499368","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\/499368","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=499368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}