{"id":8921,"date":"2026-04-13T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:32:01","slug":"irans-fm-blames-islamabad-talks-failure-on-u-s-maximalist-demands-blockade-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/irans-fm-blames-islamabad-talks-failure-on-u-s-maximalist-demands-blockade-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s FM blames Islamabad talks&#8217; failure on U.S. maximalist demands, blockade threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s FM blames Islamabad talks&#8217; failure on U.S. maximalist demands, blockade threats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TEHRAN, April 13 (Xinhua) &#8212; Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has blamed the U.S. maximalist demands and naval blockade threats for the two countries&#8217; failure to reach an agreement in their recent peace talks in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the remarks in a post on X early Monday, stressing that Tehran and Washington were only &#8220;inches away&#8221; from reaching an agreement in their negotiations in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, on Saturday on easing tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S. in good faith to end war. But when just inches away from &#8216;Islamabad MoU,&#8217; we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade,&#8221; Araghchi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Zero lessons earned. Good will beget good will. Enmity begets enmity,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reaction to the talks&#8217; failure, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Sunday post on Truth Social that the U.S. Navy would begin blocking ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Navy Commander Shahram Irani on Sunday described Trump&#8217;s threat of imposing a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz as &#8220;very ridiculous and laughable,&#8221; the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added Iran&#8217;s naval forces are monitoring all movements by the U.S. army in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on Sunday, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said in a statement that any military vessels that intend to approach the Strait of Hormuz under any title or pretext will be considered a ceasefire violation and will be dealt with severely.&nbsp;\u25a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s FM blames Islamabad talks&#8217; failure on U.S. maximalist demands, blockade threats TEHRAN, April 13&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}