{"id":310526,"date":"2026-11-04T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=310526"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:10:26","slug":"reuters-iran-us-still-far-apart-on-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/310526\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Iran, US still far apart on 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>Iran and the United States are still far from a deal to end their war, a senior Iranian official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-foreign-minister-says-talks-with-saudi-arabia-are-ongoing-yemen-fighting-2026-11-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, as US President Donald Trump declined to rule out a resumption of US combat operations after the elections in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mediators are working hard to narrow gaps between Tehran and Washington,&rdquo; the senior Iranian official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tehran&rsquo;s conditions must be met if the US wants Hormuz reopened,&rdquo; the Iranian official cautioned, referring to Iranian demands including waiving oil sanctions, ending the US naval blockade and releasing frozen Iranian funds.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar&rsquo;s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said both the &#8288;United States and Iran were reviewing proposals put forward by mediators. While the Qatari team that travelled to Tehran had returned to Doha, talks were continuing. Qatar remained hopeful a deal could still be reached to pave the way for future negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>An official briefed on the talks said feedback from Washington and Tehran was expected within the next 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Iranian official told Reuters later that there is no deadline for exchanging messages with Washington through mediators or reviewing responses.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Iranian official said Tehran would not accept Washington&rsquo;s &ldquo;excessive demands&rdquo; and that nuclear talks could &#8288;begin only after Iran&rsquo;s conditions were met.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran would respond forcefully, in the region and beyond, to US strikes, the official added.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and the United States are still far from a deal to end their war, a senior Iranian official told Reuters, as US President Donald Trump declined to rule out a resumption of US combat operations after the elections in the United States. &ldquo;Mediators are working hard to narrow gaps between Tehran and Washington,&rdquo; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":310520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310526","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=310526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310527,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310526\/revisions\/310527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}