{"id":45783,"date":"2026-03-31T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/45783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:59:03","slug":"iran-says-it-has-will-to-end-war-as-trump-zigzags-on-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/45783\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says it has \u2018will\u2019 to end war, as Trump zigzags on escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran has the \u201cnecessary will\u201d to end the war with the US and Israel, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday, stressing that Tehran was seeking guarantees the conflict would not flare up again.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The comment by the head of state \u2013 which boosted markets in the US \u2013 came after a day of heavy strikes on Iran and followed a tough warning from the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Guards threatened to retaliate against leading US tech firms such as Google, Meta and Apple from Wednesday if more Iranian leaders were killed in \u201ctargeted assassinations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Guards charged that 18 companies, also including Intel, Tesla and analytics firm Palantir, were complicit in previous killings and warned they \u201cshould expect the destruction of their relevant units in exchange for every assassination in Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war on February 28, killing Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and setting off a wave of retaliatory attacks across the region.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump has since zigzagged on whether Washington plans to further escalate the war that has roiled the world economy \u2013 possibly by deploying American ground forces \u2013 or try to end it through negotiations with Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has the \u201cnecessary will\u201d to end the war with the US and Israel, President Masoud Pezeshkian said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16621,89,41,38,1567,11169,1446,100,18806,34,37,93,9097,7916,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-45783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-dubai","13":"tag-european-council","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-hezbollah","16":"tag-intel","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-lebanon","20":"tag-meta","21":"tag-palantir","22":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116326509043049921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783","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=45783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}