{"id":3394,"date":"2026-10-27T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:03:48","slug":"qatar-says-iran-needs-to-show-good-intentions-for-mediation-efforts-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"Qatar says Iran needs to show good intentions for mediation efforts to succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Iran needs to show good intentions for mediation efforts to succeed, mediator Qatar \u200bsaid on Tuesday, after a delegation from \u200cthe Gulf Arab country visited Tehran earlier this week in an effort to de-escalate regional tensions in coordination with \u200bthe United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Qatari \u200bForeign Ministry told a press briefing that Iran \u2060should stop threats against Arab Gulf states \u200band open the Strait of Hormuz to show good \u200bintentions.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, along with Pakistan, has been mediating between Washington and Tehran in an effort to end the US-Israeli war on Iran \u200bthat has disrupted global shipping and oil \u200bsupplies, and spilled over across other parts of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Top \u200cofficials \u2060from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan also met Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday in an effort to de-escalate the conflict, as Yemen\u2019s Houthis \u200blaunched new attacks on Saudi Arabia \u2060and Egypt approved defence support for the Gulf kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Washington and Tehran \u200bhave sharpened recently, with President Donald Trump \u200bsaying \u2060on Friday the US may strike Iran again. Iranian security officials told Reuters Tehran had drawn up \u2060detailed \u200bplans to attack Gulf undersea cables if the US and Israel attack again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran needs to show good intentions for mediation efforts to succeed, mediator Qatar \u200bsaid on Tuesday, after a delegation from \u200cthe Gulf Arab country visited Tehran earlier this week in an effort to de-escalate regional tensions in coordination with \u200bthe United States. A spokesperson for the Qatari \u200bForeign Ministry told a press briefing that Iran \u2060should stop threats against Arab Gulf states \u200band open the Strait of Hormuz to show good \u200bintentions. Qatar, along with Pakistan, has been mediating between Washington and Tehran in an effort to end the US-Israeli&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}