{"id":13343,"date":"2026-05-19T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/19\/washington-post-iran-peace-deal-nuclear-agreement-us\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:30:36","slug":"washington-post-iran-peace-deal-nuclear-agreement-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/19\/washington-post-iran-peace-deal-nuclear-agreement-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Reports Iran&#8217;s Condition for Nuclear Deal: End to the War First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has reported that Iran demands a peace agreement to end the war before any nuclear deal with the United States is announced. This was stated early Tuesday by an anonymous Pakistani official.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the Pakistani official said Tehran prefers to declare the end of the war first, followed by an official announcement of the nuclear agreement with the U.S. In contrast, Washington is inclined to announce all related agreements simultaneously as part of a comprehensive package.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post also cited U.S. military officials, noting that the Pentagon has maintained a significant naval presence in the region during the ceasefire. No further details have been released about the composition or mission of these forces.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would be satisfied if an agreement prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. So far, Iranian officials have not publicly responded to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post reports Iran demands a peace deal before any nuclear agreement with the U.S.; Pentagon maintains naval presence amid ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}