{"id":21151,"date":"2026-02-27T22:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:16:06","slug":"iran-says-us-must-drop-excessive-demands-in-nuclear-negotiations-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21151\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says US must drop \u2018excessive demands\u2019 in nuclear negotiations | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States must drop its \u201cexcessive demands\u201d in nuclear talks with Iran to achieve a successful outcome, the Iranian foreign minister has said, as the US embassy in Jerusalem granted permission to nonemergency staff members to leave Israel amid fears of a regional war.<\/p>\n

Abbas Aragchi made the remarks during a phone call with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdel Ati, according to a report<\/a> on Friday by the ISNA news agency.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s top diplomat said that \u201csuccess on this path requires seriousness and realism on the part of the other side and avoidance of any miscalculation and excessive demands\u201d. He did not elaborate on what those demands are.<\/p>\n

Aragchi\u2019s statement tempered down previous comments where he hailed<\/a> \u201cprogress\u201d at the talks and described the last round of negotiations between Iranian and US officials in Geneva as the \u201cmost intense so far\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt concluded with the mutual understanding that we will continue to engage in a more detailed manner on matters that are essential to any deal \u2013 including sanctions termination and nuclear-related steps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Further negotiations will be conducted in parallel to meetings between technical teams in Vienna in the coming days, the Iranian diplomat added.<\/p>\n

American and Iranian officials left the Swiss city following the indirect talks mediated by Oman on Thursday to consult with their respective governments.<\/p>\n

Since resuming talks last month, the US has said it wants Iran to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure entirely, limit its arsenal of ballistic missiles and stop supporting regional allies. While Tehran has shown flexibility about discussing limitations on the enrichment of uranium for civilian use, it has so far treated missiles and proxies as non-negotiables.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has said he favours a diplomatic resolution to the standoff, but has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran if it does not accept a deal. The US has amassed its biggest military arsenal in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including the world\u2019s biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, which arrived on Friday in the Israeli port city of Haifa, according to Israeli Channel 12.<\/p>\n

Iran has said that it was not going to initiate a war, but that it was ready to respond if attacked, threatening to strike bases used by US forces in the region.<\/p>\n

The military build-up has left the region bracing for a potential war that could spiral into a regional conflict. On Friday, China told its citizens to evacuate from Iran \u201cas soon as possible\u201d and the US authorised the departure of nonemergency embassy staff from Israel \u2013 the same order Washington issued for the US mission in Lebanon earlier this week. Canada, India, UK and Poland have also issued similar orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian foreign minister emphasizes seriousness and realism as key to successful negotiations with the United States. Listen to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,3188,239,1202,74,7199],"class_list":{"0":"post-21151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-geneva","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}