{"id":593089,"date":"2026-04-19T05:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593089\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:33:11","slug":"new-age-iran-victorious-in-war-with-united-states-speaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/593089\/","title":{"rendered":"New Age | Iran \u2018victorious\u2019 in war with United States, speaker says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                              &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"igm-fluid lazy_bk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cfa612eef7643fec8dc93304c628628d.jpg\" alt=\"Image description\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             A man walks past a banner with pictures of Iran\u2019s slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei, installed along a street in Tehran on April 15, 2026. The United States has not formally agreed to extend its two-week ceasefire with Iran, a senior official said on April 15, after reports that President Donald Trump\u2019s administration had consented in principle to lengthen the truce. |  AFP photo.                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran had been \u2018victorious in the field\u2019 during weeks of war and had only agreed to a temporary truce with the United States because its demands had been met, the Iranian parliamentary speaker said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-week ceasefire is set to end Wednesday unless it is renewed, with a permanent deal that mediators including Pakistan are pushing to get over the line still not finalised and progress on key sticking points uncertain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018We were victorious in the field,\u2019 speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a national televised address, adding the United States had not achieved its goals and Iran controlled the strategic Strait of Hormuz maritime transit route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018If we accepted the ceasefire, it was because they accepted our demands,\u2019 he said, referring to the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018The enemy\u2019s every effort was to impose its demands on us and it is important that we register our rights, so this is where negotiation is a method of struggle.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghalibaf and his delegation held closed door talks in Islamabad with US vice-president JD Vance on April 11, in the highest level Iran-US contacts since before the 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks did not result in a final deal and officials have signalled mediations are continuing, though Iran\u2019s deputy foreign minister said on Saturday no date had been set for a new round of talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A man walks past a banner with pictures of Iran\u2019s slain supreme leader Ayatollah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,116784,116783,116781,116778,116780,116777,116782,116779,116775,3,116776,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-593089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-bangla-online-news","tag-bangladesh-latest-news","tag-bangladesh-news","tag-bangladesh-newspaper","tag-bangladeshi-newspapers","tag-daily-new-age","tag-latest-bangladesh-news","tag-most-popular-outspoken-english-daily-newpaper-in-bangladesh","tag-new-age","tag-news","tag-the-new-age","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}