{"id":249454,"date":"2026-04-02T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249454"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:54:59","slug":"iran-says-it-wont-tolerate-the-vicious-cycle-of-war-negotiations-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249454\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it won\u2019t tolerate the \u2018vicious cycle of war, negotiations, ceasefire\u2019"},"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>Iran&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei has issued a statement in response to Trump&rsquo;s speech, in which the US president warned that Iran must agree to a deal within two to three weeks or face strikes on every one of its power plants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/2\/iran-war-live-trump-to-address-nation-tehran-denies-seeking-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We will not tolerate this vicious cycle of war, negotiations, ceasefire, and then repeating the same pattern,&rdquo; Esmail Baghaei said, describing the ongoing conflict as &ldquo;catastrophic not only for Iran, but for the entire region and beyond.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Baghaei said Iran will continue to fight back for as long as US-Israeli strikes continue, and reaffirmed that Tehran does not regard its Gulf neighbours as enemies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have repeatedly said that we are determined to continue our good-neighbourly relations with all of them. The problem is that the United States and Israel are exploiting their territories to carry out their military aggression against Iran,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei has issued a statement in response to Trump&rsquo;s speech, in which the US president warned that Iran must agree to a deal within two to three weeks or face strikes on every one of its power plants, Al Jazeera writes. &ldquo;We will not tolerate this vicious cycle of war, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249434,"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-249454","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\/249454","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=249454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249455,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249454\/revisions\/249455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}