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Iran FM says deal depends on end to 'excessive' US demands

In a high-stakes phone call with Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi on Friday, Iran's top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, asserted that "arriving at a final agreement depends on ending the American party's attitude based on excessive demands."

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Published May 29,2026
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Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araghchi told his Omani counterpart that reaching a deal with the United States to end the Middle East war depended on Washington dropping its "excessive demands", Tehran's foreign ministry said Friday.

"The Iranian minister of foreign affairs... indicated that arriving at a final agreement depended on ending the American party's attitude based on excessive demands and shifting and contradictory positions," the ministry said in a summary of a call between the ministers.