{"id":39363,"date":"2025-12-28T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39363"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:38:19","slug":"javad-zarif-main-threat-to-the-middle-east-is-israel-not-iran-israel-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39363","title":{"rendered":"Javad Zarif: Main threat to the Middle East is Israel, not Iran | Israel-Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s former foreign minister argues Israel, backed by the US, has killed every opportunity for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Months after being attacked by the United States and Israel, Iran finds itself in the crosshairs again, with Israeli officials lobbying US President Donald Trump to address Tehran\u2019s ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Iranian diplomat Javad Zarif tells host Steve Clemons that \u201ceverybody lost any faith in diplomacy\u201d after Israel and the US attacked Iran following five rounds of reconciliation talks between Washington and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif added that Israel has historically thwarted every opportunity for reconciliation between Iran and the US, and that Trump\u2019s style of diplomacy is disastrous, as it creates \u201cnegotiations that end up in war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 28 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">28 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s former foreign minister argues Israel, backed by the US, has killed every opportunity for peace. Months after being attacked by the United States and Israel, Iran finds itself in the crosshairs again, with Israeli officials lobbying US President Donald Trump to address Tehran\u2019s ballistic missiles. Veteran Iranian diplomat Javad Zarif tells host Steve Clemons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[267,898,84,214,266,21357,7461,897,1162,21358],"class_list":{"0":"post-39363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-east","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israeliran","13":"tag-javad","14":"tag-main","15":"tag-middle","16":"tag-threat","17":"tag-zarif"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}