{"id":660971,"date":"2026-05-23T19:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660971\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:24:16","slug":"us-iran-war-news-live-updates-mou-in-final-phase-fairly-comprehensive-to-end-war-pak-on-us-iran-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660971\/","title":{"rendered":"US Iran War News Live Updates: &#8216;MoU in final phase, fairly comprehensive to end war&#8217; &#8211; Pak on US-Iran deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is willing to continue negotiations with the United States, but first wants clarity on whether President Donald Trump can pursue an independent foreign policy separate from Israeli influence, according to Foad Izadi, associate professor at the University of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Izadi said there is a broad belief in Tehran that the current conflict is \u201cNetanyahu\u2019s war\u201d and that the Israeli Prime Minister succeeded in drawing Washington deeper into the confrontation, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe general consensus in Tehran is that this is Netanyahu\u2019s war and that he managed to bring the US president in with him,\u201d Izadi said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Iran\u2019s insistence on achieving a ceasefire across all fronts before negotiations progress stems from concerns over whether agreements can genuinely hold.<\/p>\n<p>Izadi pointed to Lebanon as a key test case, arguing that although a ceasefire formally exists, violence has continued on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLebanon is the litmus test,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the test for Iran to see whether Trump can finally have an independent foreign policy or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that if Tehran secures \u201ca genuine ceasefire in Lebanon and an end to the war on all fronts, negotiations can move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran is willing to continue negotiations with the United States, but first wants clarity on whether President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-660971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","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\/660971","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=660971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}