{"id":4296,"date":"2026-11-12T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2026-11-12T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:03:58","slug":"erdogan-urges-return-to-diplomacy-to-end-iran-us-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan urges return to diplomacy to end Iran-US conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said diplomacy should resume \u201cwithout further delay\u201d to end the US-Iran war after talks with his Iranian counterpart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erdogan met Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a UN climate conference in the Turkish province of Antalya, his office said.<\/p>\n<p>During their discussion, Erdogan underscored \u201cthe importance of getting to the negotiating table without further delay\u201d and said Turkey would continue to support efforts aimed at securing peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommon ground for agreement must be strengthened and diplomacy given a chance,\u201d he said, expressing hope that the conflict with the US \u201cwould end as soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East war broke out on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at countries across the region, while the militant groups it backs in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq also entered the fray.<\/p>\n<p>In an address to the UN climate summit on Wednesday, Pezeshkian accused the United States and Israel of inflicting severe environmental damage during attacks on the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent criminal and illegal aggression against Iran by America and the Zionist regime\u2026 has inflicted severe damage on the environment, releasing massive quantities of pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic efforts led by Qatar and Pakistan have sought to negotiate an end to the war.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran wants Washington to accept a raft of demands including unfreezing assets and lifting sanctions in return for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the vital energy conduit it has blockaded since the start of the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said diplomacy should resume \u201cwithout further delay\u201d to end the US-Iran war after talks with his Iranian counterpart. Erdogan met Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of a UN climate conference in the Turkish province of Antalya, his office said. During their discussion, Erdogan underscored \u201cthe importance of getting to the negotiating table without further delay\u201d and said Turkey would continue to support efforts aimed at securing peace. \u201cCommon ground for agreement must be strengthened and diplomacy given a chance,\u201d he said,&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-4296","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\/4296","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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}