{"id":23008,"date":"2026-01-28T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/turkey-urges-us-to-resolve-iran-disputes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:53","slug":"turkey-urges-us-to-resolve-iran-disputes","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/turkey-urges-us-to-resolve-iran-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey urges US to resolve Iran disputes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Turkey&#8217;s Foreign Minister on Wednesday urged the United States (US) to resolve its disputes with Iran &#8220;one by one&#8221; instead of through a sweeping deal, saying this would avoid humiliating Iranian officials, and added that Tehran was ready for talks on its nuclear programme.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>US President Donald Trump said last week that Washington had an &#8220;armada&#8221; heading toward Iran but hoped he would not have to use it, as he renewed warnings to Tehran against killing protesters or restarting its nuclear programme.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tehran brutally cracked down on anti-government protests earlier this month, leading to the death and arrest of thousands of people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Officials blamed the unrest on &#8220;armed terrorists and rioters&#8221; linked to Iran&#8217;s foes, the United States and Israel. Rights groups describe the protests as the biggest since the 1979 revolution.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking to Al Jazeera, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reiterated that Turkey opposed any foreign intervention or attack on Iran, saying it would be &#8220;wrong to start the war again.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;My advice always to the American friends: close the files one by one with Iranians. Start with nuclear, close it, then the other, then the other,&#8221; Fidan said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;If you put them as a package all of them, it will be very difficult for our Iranian friends to digest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It sometimes might seem humiliating for them. It will be very difficult to explain to not only themselves, but also to the leadership.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In June, the US struck Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities amid heightened regional tensions with Israel over the war in Gaza.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Talks on Tehran&#8217;s nuclear programme, which it says is for peaceful purposes have made little progress.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22578,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23008","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Turkey on Wednesday urged the United States (US) to resolve its disputes with Iran","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26116,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23008\/revisions\/26116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}