{"id":552981,"date":"2026-04-27T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:46:10","slug":"irans-foreign-minister-visits-russia-after-israeli-strikes-kill-14-in-lebanon-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/552981\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s foreign minister visits Russia after Israeli strikes kill 14 in Lebanon on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian foreign minister arrives in Russia as peace talks show little progresspublished at 07:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>07:26 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/efc4785b-e209-4310-bc20-65148f0cfca4.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Adam Goldsmith<br \/>Live reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aragchi wears a dark suit and shakes hands with officials\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/efffaf04-34d9-461c-a029-474c40ed2a59.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, TELEGRAM\/REUTERSImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Images appeared to show Araghchi shaking hands with officials as he arrived in St Petersburg<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re resuming our live coverage as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi has arrived in  Russia, following talks with other nations over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, the BBC&#8217;s US partner CBS News reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Araghchi&#8217;s visit comes after a trip to Oman, where he says talks focused on &#8220;ways to ensure safe transit that is to benefit of all dear neighbors and the world&#8221; in the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the weekend, the foreign minister also said he had a \u201cvery fruitful\u201d visit to Islamabad, where he \u201cshared Iran&#8217;s position concerning workable framework to permanently end the war on Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cHave yet to see if the U.S. is truly serious about diplomacy,\u201d he wrote on social media on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aragchi\u2019s comments were followed by news that Donald Trump had cancelled plans for US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to visit Islamabad for peace discussions with Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both sides remain locked in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz despite Trump&#8217;s extension of a ceasefire that had been due to expire on 22 April to allow talks to continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile in Lebanon, Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade strikes amid a precarious ceasefire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry says Israeli strikes on the country on Sunday killed 14 people, including two children and two women, and injured 37. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israeli military says a 19-year-old soldier had been killed and six others injured by a Hezbollah drone attack in Lebanon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian foreign minister arrives in Russia as peace talks show little progresspublished at 07:26 BST 07:26 BST Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-552981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552981","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=552981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}