{"id":303972,"date":"2026-10-09T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=303972"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:07:44","slug":"iranian-president-proposes-a-cis-1-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/303972\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President proposes a &#8220;CIS+1&#8221; format"},"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 President Masoud Pezeshkian has proposed expanding cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by introducing a &ldquo;CIS+1&rdquo; format that would include Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For us, regional diplomacy is not just about holding meetings; it must become a tool for managing crises, maintaining communication, preventing conflict escalation, and promoting practical cooperation,&rdquo; he stated at the CIS Council of Heads of State summit in Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time in the organization&rsquo;s history that an Iranian leader has attended the event as a special guest. &ldquo;We must combine our capabilities so that every country can benefit from our shared geography,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pezeshkian believes the Middle East can be &ldquo;transformed into a network for energy production, transmission, and exchange&rdquo; connecting oil, gas, electricity, and renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has proposed expanding cooperation with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by introducing a &ldquo;CIS+1&rdquo; format that would include Tehran. &ldquo;For us, regional diplomacy is not just about holding meetings; it must become a tool for managing crises, maintaining communication, preventing conflict escalation, and promoting practical cooperation,&rdquo; he stated at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":303945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303972","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303973,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303972\/revisions\/303973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}