{"id":43814,"date":"2010-08-09T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/09\/us-open-to-engagement-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T05:18:00","slug":"us-open-to-engagement-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/09\/us-open-to-engagement-with-iran.html","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;Open to Engagement&#8217; with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arian AMU'; color: black\">US Secretary of <span class=\"klink\">State Hillary<br \/>\nClinton<\/span> said the United States remains &#8220;open to engagement&#8221;<br \/>\nwith Iran amid tensions over its nuclear aims, according to an interview<br \/>\ntranscript released Sunday, AFP reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arian AMU'; color: black\">&#8220;We remain open to engagement. But they do know<br \/>\nwhat they have to do. They have to reassure the international community by<br \/>\nwords and actions as to what their nuclear program is intended for,&#8221; she<br \/>\nsaid in an interview with The <span class=\"klink\">New York Times<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arian AMU'; color: black\">&#8220;And so whether it would take six months, a year,<br \/>\nor five years, it&#8217;s that deep concern about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons that<br \/>\nis the preoccupation of our friends and partners,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Arian AMU'; color: black\">But Washington, she added, would pursue the sanctions path<br \/>\n&#8220;regardless of any issue of timing, because we think it&#8217;s got the best potential<br \/>\nfor changing Iranian behavior.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States remains &#8220;open to engagement&#8221; with Iran amid tensions&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13544,11602,10297,11036,10301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}