{"id":5775,"date":"2013-02-10T04:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ahmadinejad-i-ll-talk-with-us-if-pressure-stops\/"},"modified":"2013-02-10T04:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:54:17","slug":"ahmadinejad-i-ll-talk-with-us-if-pressure-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ahmadinejad-i-ll-talk-with-us-if-pressure-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad: I&#8217;ll talk with US if Pressure Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Iran&#8217;s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he is ready to have direct talks with United States if the West stops pressuring his country.}}<\/p>\n<p>His Sunday statements to a rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution come after Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all key decisions, effectively closed the door on direct talks with Washington as long as sanctions and other pressures remain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You pull away the gun from the face of the Iranian nation, I myself will enter the talks with you,&#8221; Ahmadinejad said. The declaration appears part of Ahmadinejad&#8217;s attempt to retain the appearance of political relevance going into his final months of office.<\/p>\n<p>The West suspects Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons and has imposed sanctions. Iran denies the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Iran&#8217;s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he is ready to have direct talks with United States if the West stops pressuring his country.}} His Sunday statements to a rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution come after Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all key decisions, effectively closed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-internationl","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}