{"id":131696,"date":"2026-05-26T13:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131696\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:11:10","slug":"efforts-to-end-the-war-continue-as-tensions-between-the-u-s-and-iran-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131696\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to End the War Continue as Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran Escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Efforts to End the War Continue as Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran Escalate<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to End the War Continue as Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran EscalateSecretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that negotiations to end the war in Iran were continuing. His comments came after the United States conducted what it said were \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d in southern Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I think, like anything with something like this, it\u2019s going to take a couple of days to settle on, even down to the disagreements over a word, a sentence. So we\u2019ll have to work through that. If there\u2019s going to be a deal, we\u2019re going to have to work through that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man holds up a large portrait with one hand and waves a flag with the other, while sitting in a large group of people.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/26mideast-header1-fghb-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that negotiations to end the war in Iran were continuing. His comments came after the United States conducted what it said were \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d in southern Iran.<\/p>\n<p>By Monika Cvorak<\/p>\n<p>May 26, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Efforts to End the War Continue as Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran Escalate transcript&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,210,179,35895,153,5431,2429],"class_list":["post-131696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-iran","tag-marco-rubio","tag-military","tag-self-defense","tag-us","tag-us-and-israeli-attack-on-iran","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116641050695686701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}