{"id":245355,"date":"2026-03-19T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=245355"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:50:02","slug":"araghchi-says-this-is-americas-war-a-war-chosen-by-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/245355\/","title":{"rendered":"Araghchi says this is \u2018America\u2019s war\u2019, a war chosen by US"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/3\/19\/iran-war-live-qatar-saudi-energy-sites-attacked-riyadh-says-trust-gone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> that the United States is responsible for the war engulfing the region.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This war is not our war, not the war of the American people, nor the war of the region. It is America&rsquo;s war, a war that the United States, itself chose. It&rsquo;s a war of choice,&rdquo; Araghchi said.<\/p>\n<p>He denied targeting civilians, defended Iran&rsquo;s retaliation and warned that the US military presence across the Gulf makes escalation unavoidable.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has told Al Jazeera that the United States is responsible for the war engulfing the region. &ldquo;This war is not our war, not the war of the American people, nor the war of the region. It is America&rsquo;s war, a war that the United States, itself chose. It&rsquo;s a war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":245351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245356,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245355\/revisions\/245356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}