{"id":757972,"date":"2026-09-02T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757972\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:42:12","slug":"iran-calls-deaths-at-wedding-celebration-a-war-crime-as-us-denies-targeting-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/757972\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran calls deaths at wedding celebration a &#8216;war crime&#8217; as US denies targeting civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening with Iran-US talks?published at 12:00 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:00 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/84235ea3-e168-4601-8945-9467e76fa41f.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ghoncheh Habibiazad<br \/>Senior reporter, BBC Persian<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump (sitting, left) signs his name at the bottom of the Memorandum of Understanding as French President Emmanuel Macron (sitting, right) observes. They're both wearing black suits. Behind them, standing, are US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/01c14ac9-7266-49c1-a063-ccb160c085ed.jpg.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Daniel Torok\/The White HouseImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Donald Trump signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran in June. The document has since expired<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While there have been no official meetings between Iranian and US officials recently, there have reportedly been visits to Tehran by regional mediators such as Pakistan, Oman and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said yesterday that Tehran would immediately resume implementing the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in June if Washington returned to its own commitments under the agreement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he made these remarks before last night\u2019s US attacks on Iran, and this morning the message from Iran\u2019s Armed Forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been one of defiance and retaliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iran has repeatedly accused the US of breaching the agreements in the MoU, while Washington has accused Tehran of attacking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US is also continuing its naval blockade of Iran, which has affected the country\u2019s ability to export oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inside Iran, there is renewed economic pressure after Washington announced a fresh sanctions campaign on 24 August, aimed at further isolating Tehran and expanding secondary sanctions on its allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iranian officials and state media have largely dismissed the campaign as a continuation of previous US economic measures, arguing that they came after what they call Washington\u2019s military failure in the recent conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is happening with Iran-US talks?published at 12:00 BST 12:00 BST Ghoncheh HabibiazadSenior reporter, BBC Persian Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-757972","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\/757972","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=757972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}