{"id":77215,"date":"2026-05-01T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/01\/pakistan-backchannel-us-iran-deal-peace"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:27:45","slug":"pakistan-acting-as-backchannel-as-us-and-iran-inch-towards-deal-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77215","title":{"rendered":"Iran offers new peace proposal to US but Trump \u2018not satisfied\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran reportedly passed proposal to mediators in Pakistan on Thursday night, though its contents are not yet clear<\/p>\n<p>Iran has passed a new proposal to Pakistani mediators in the latest effort to end the war with the US, but Donald Trump said he was not \u201csatisfied\u201d by it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we have talks going on, they\u2019re not getting there,\u201d he told reporters, adding that his options remained \u201ceither blast them away or make a deal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/01\/pakistan-backchannel-us-iran-deal-peace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran reportedly passed proposal to mediators in Pakistan on Thursday night, though its contents are not yet clearIran has passed a new proposal to Pakistani mediators in the latest effort to end the war with the US, but Donald Trump said he was not \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,212,60,3511,554,45,47,3510,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-strait-of-hormuz","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77221,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77215\/revisions\/77221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}