{"id":252496,"date":"2026-04-11T11:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=252496"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:59:25","slug":"ghalibaf-says-us-must-recognize-irans-rights-if-it-wants-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/252496\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghalibaf says US must recognize Iran\u2019s rights if it wants a deal"},"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>The United States must recognize Iran&rsquo;s rights if it wants to reach an agreement, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran&rsquo;s Parliament, said upon arriving in Pakistan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/11\/iran-war-live-us-negotiators-due-to-arrive-in-pakistan-for-ceasefire-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ghalibaf, who heads the Iranian delegation, told reporters that they had come to Islamabad with a positive attitude, despite not trusting the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to what he described as Washington&rsquo;s failure to uphold commitments made during previous rounds of negotiations, accusing it of having launched a war instead.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between US and Iranian representatives are set to begin today in Islamabad, with both delegations already arriving in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States must recognize Iran&rsquo;s rights if it wants to reach an agreement, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran&rsquo;s Parliament, said upon arriving in Pakistan, according to Al Jazeera. Ghalibaf, who heads the Iranian delegation, told reporters that they had come to Islamabad with a positive attitude, despite not trusting the United States. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,96,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252496","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=252496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252497,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252496\/revisions\/252497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}