{"id":67468,"date":"2026-04-14T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/67468\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T23:13:11","slug":"lebanon-and-israel-hold-first-in-person-talks-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/67468\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon and Israel Hold First In-Person Talks in Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Lebanon and Israel Hold First In-Person Talks in Decades<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon and Israel Hold First In-Person Talks in DecadesWhile the talks between Israel and Lebanon in Washington did not yield a cease-fire agreement, both sides agreed to \u201claunch direct negotiations\u201d after having \u201cproductive discussions,\u201d according to a statement from the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cIt\u2019s a historic gathering that we hope to build on. And the hope today is that we can outline the framework upon which a permanent and lasting peace can be developed.\u201d \u201cWe discovered today that we\u2019re on the same side of the equation. That\u2019s the most positive thing we could have come away with. We are both united in liberating Lebanon from an occupation power dominated by Iran called Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People are seated around a large U-shaped table in front of American, Israeli, and Lebanese flags.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/14dc-diplo-sub-jkgf-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>While the talks between Israel and Lebanon in Washington did not yield a cease-fire agreement, both sides agreed to \u201claunch direct negotiations\u201d after having \u201cproductive discussions,\u201d according to a statement from the U.S. State Department.<\/p>\n<p>By Meg Felling<\/p>\n<p>April 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Lebanon and Israel Hold First In-Person Talks in Decades transcript Back transcript Lebanon and Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[100,1743,37,93,179,5432],"class_list":{"0":"post-67468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-hezbollah","9":"tag-international-relations","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-lebanon","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-wararmed-conflicts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116405600572415286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67468","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=67468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}