{"id":272933,"date":"2026-06-11T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=272933"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:04:45","slug":"fidan-warns-recent-us-iran-strikes-risk-escalating-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/272933\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidan warns recent US\u2013Iran strikes risk escalating tensions"},"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>Turkey&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that until the last few days, the negotiations between the United States and Iran had in fact reached a stage where only a few phrases remained unresolved in certain parts of the text.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there was a widespread belief that an agreement between the two countries would soon be reached.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;However, we have seen that the reciprocal attacks that began two days ago carry a risk of escalation. This is genuinely a cause for concern for us,&rdquo; Fidan stated, urging the parties to cease hostilities as soon as possible, return to the negotiating table, and &ldquo;finalize the text that they were so close to completing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have all witnessed and experienced that the escalation of the war, the increase in tensions, and a return to an all-out war environment benefit no one,&rdquo; Fidan said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that until the last few days, the negotiations between the United States and Iran had in fact reached a stage where only a few phrases remained unresolved in certain parts of the text. According to him, there was a widespread belief that an agreement between the two countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":272921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,82,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-turkey","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272933","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=272933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272934,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272933\/revisions\/272934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}