{"id":35413,"date":"2026-05-26T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35413"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:35:28","slug":"iran-negotiators-arrive-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/iran-negotiators-arrive-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran negotiators arrive in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iran&#8217;s top negotiators have arrived in the Gulf state of Qatar for further talks on the emerging peace agreement with the United States (US), even as it remains unclear how much progress has been made.<\/div>\n<div>US President Donald Trump said negotiations with Iran were progressing well while demanding that Middle East countries sign the Abraham Accords after a deal is reached.In a flurry of presidential social media activity on Saturday, it appeared as though a deal to end the conflict in Iran may be imminent, with Trump announcing that the two countries had &#8220;largely negotiated&#8221; a memorandum of understanding &#8220;pertaining to peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But since then, both sides have stepped back, and Trump said on Monday that negotiations were &#8220;proceeding nicely&#8221; but warned that fighting would resume &#8220;bigger and stronger than ever before&#8221; if the talks failed.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has said a &#8220;degree of understanding&#8221; has been reached. But both sides signalled that a deal was not imminent.<\/p>\n<p>That suggests there are still significant disagreements to overcome, like the lifting of US sanctions and in particular Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranians have said they are not currently discussing details of their nuclear program while a Senior US official said Iran had committed, in principle, to giving up stockpiles of enriched uranium that could become the basis for a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29729,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-35413","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Iran's top negotiators have arrived in the Gulf state of Qatar","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35413","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35418,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35413\/revisions\/35418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}