{"id":40514,"date":"2026-04-04T02:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40514"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:40:38","slug":"iran-peace-talks-wont-be-derailed-by-attack-on-us-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40514","title":{"rendered":"Iran peace talks won&#8217;t be derailed by attack on US fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump said Friday that peace talks won\u2019t be impacted by Iran\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/world-news\/iran-claims-it-shot-down-us-fighter-jet-as-bounty-placed-on-pilot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shooting down an American fighter jet<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as a US official told The Post that negotiations with Tehran remain active.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke as search and rescue operations continued for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/world-news\/iran-claims-it-shot-down-us-fighter-jet-as-bounty-placed-on-pilot\/\">second crew member of the\u00a0F-15 fighter<\/a> jet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Debris from the site appears to match the vertical stabilizer of the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Iran\u2019s armed forces claim that a U.S. fighter jet has been shot down over the country.  <span class=\"credit\">Iranian state media<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/30\/us-news\/trump-admin-live-updates-march-30-31-april-1-2-3\/\">Follow The Post\u2019s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>\u201cNo, not at all,\u201d Trump told NBC News in a phone interview when asked if the shoot-down would shut down talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it\u2019s war. We\u2019re in war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both pilots ejected, but only one was quickly located by American forces scouring the area\u00a0following the first enemy downing a US warplane in 35 days of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Two helicopters involved in the search <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/world-news\/2-us-helicopters-hit-in-search-and-rescue-efforts-in-iran-report\/\">reportedly were struck by Iranian fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was confusion Friday over the status of\u00a0peace talks, with the Wall Street Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/iran-war-news-2026\/card\/mediators-latest-efforts-to-reach-cease-fire-hit-dead-end-g4ee6afUWAumzrGuZ1N7?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfDnTW8vxXziXGgkk1ufB2z9CWSDq2mUZoiJO5LdDgSSOmUXwhYXBe_hyE22tA%3D&amp;gaa_ts=69d02969&amp;gaa_sig=dbRo6YMgjfb7siQGLof0OZwQguM3qFEPLC0SLRzAdXjupD3A4KZxygLzT2jyj-PbGvrm53yt_bBVzg-dkcCHdg%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0reporting<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cIran has officially told the mediators it isn\u2019t willing to meet U.S. officials in Islamabad in the coming days and that U.S. demands are unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A senior US official close to the negotiations told The Post that the Journal\u2019s report was \u201cnot true\u201d and that it would be \u201cvery accurate\u201d to report that talks are ongoing about setting up a possible meeting and the terms of a possible deal.<\/p>\n<p>A possible summit with Iranian officials in Pakistan, likely involving <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/world-news\/vp-jd-vance-emerges-as-key-player-in-iran-war-off-ramp-discussions\/\">special envoy Steve Witkoff and Vice President JD Vance<\/a>, had been floated for weeks \u2014 as US officials insisted that Iran\u2019s public defiance belied private conciliation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s team last week <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/world-news\/iran-rejects-trumps-15-point-cease-fire-plan-makes-own-demands\/\">transmitted a 15-point peace proposal to Iran<\/a>, calling for it to abandon its nuclear program, end its support for regional proxies and reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for sanctions relief.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A piece of debris from the downed US fighter jet. One of the crew members was rescued. <span class=\"credit\">Iranian state media<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>ACES II ejection seat from a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle, found in Southern Iran. <span class=\"credit\">OSINTdefender\/x<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Iranian state media<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iran publicly responded with a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/world-news\/iran-rejects-trumps-15-point-cease-fire-plan-makes-own-demands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0five-point counter-offer\u00a0<\/a>demanding US reparations for war damage and recognition of Tehran\u2019s right to control the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Trump this week sought to allay domestic concern about a prolonged war and associated economic pain caused by the global spike in energy costs \u2014 saying he plans to bring the conflict to a conclusion within \u201ctwo or three weeks\u201d regardless of whether there\u2019s a deal.<\/p>\n<p>The president has warned Iranian officials that civilian infrastructure such as bridges and electricity plants will be destroyed in the coming weeks if there\u2019s no deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,\u201d Trump said in a Wednesday night address to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not hit their oil, even though that\u2019s the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding.\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/world-news\/trump-iran-peace-talks-wont-be-derailed-by-attack-on-us-fighter-jet\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump said Friday that peace talks won\u2019t be impacted by Iran\u00a0shooting down an American fighter jet\u00a0\u2014 as a US official told The Post&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}