{"id":3962,"date":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","slug":"khamenei-downplays-us-talks-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3962","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei downplays US talks prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday he was satisfied with talks with the United States but warned they could ultimately prove fruitless.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s talks were &#8220;well carried out in the first steps&#8221;, Khamenei said, quoted by state television. &#8220;Of course, we are very pessimistic about the other side, but we are optimistic about our own capabilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But he added that &#8220;the negotiations may or may not yield results&#8221;. Khamenei said Iran&#8217;s &#8220;red lines are clear&#8221;, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Tuesday, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the country&#8217;s military capabilities were off limits in the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National security and defence and military power are among the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which cannot be discussed or negotiated under any circumstances,&#8221; Guards spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini said.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Khamenei said Iran should not pin its hopes on progress in the negotiations. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday he was satisfied with talks with the United States but warned they could ultimately prove fruitless. Saturday&#8217;s talks were &#8220;well carried out in the first steps&#8221;, Khamenei said, quoted by state television. &#8220;Of course, we are very pessimistic about the other side, but we are optimistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","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=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}