{"id":56840,"date":"2026-01-14T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-cancels-meetings-with-iranian-officials-amid-rising-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:16:52","slug":"trump-cancels-meetings-with-iranian-officials-amid-rising-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-cancels-meetings-with-iranian-officials-amid-rising-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump cancels meetings with Iranian officials amid rising tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision follows Trump\u2019s earlier statement that any country doing business with Iran would face a 25 percent tariff on trade with the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the escalating rhetoric, the White House said diplomacy remains Washington\u2019s preferred option. <\/p>\n<p>Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted on Monday that while dialogue is favored, the administration is not ruling out military action if circumstances require it.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of posts on his Truth Social platform, Trump urged Iranians to continue protesting and called on them to \u201ctake over your institutions,\u201d condemning what he described as the killing of demonstrators. He claimed that \u201chelp is on the way,\u201d without providing further details.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the suspension of meetings would remain in place until the \u201csenseless killing of protesters stops.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In recent days, he has again raised the possibility of U.S. military strikes, warning that a harsh crackdown by Iranian authorities could trigger a strong response from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian authorities have, for their part, consistently blamed the United States for stirring instability in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest accusation, Iran\u2019s top military commander, Abdolrahim Mousavi, claimed that the US and Israel had sent members of the armed group ISIL (ISIS) into Iran to conduct attacks, though he did not present any evidence to support the claim.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100574\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/25israel-iran-promo630p-bpqk-videosixteenbyninejumbo1600.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials, citing Iran\u2019s violent response to ongoing protests.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials, citing Iran\u2019s violent response to ongoing protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000100573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100573,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f714c55b1d542dd89d0d65c5529e9a46.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f714c55b1d542dd89d0d65c5529e9a46.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f714c55b1d542dd89d0d65c5529e9a46.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f714c55b1d542dd89d0d65c5529e9a46.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f714c55b1d542dd89d0d65c5529e9a46.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f714c55b1d542dd89d0d65c5529e9a46.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56840"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56840"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}