{"id":3872,"date":"2026-02-09T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:13:37","slug":"iran-should-make-improving-relations-with-its-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/iran-should-make-improving-relations-with-its-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran should make improving relations with its neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary introtext\">Iran should make improving relations with its neighbors the top priority of its foreign policy, while firmly resisting external pressure, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tehran &#8211; IranView24<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and a former foreign minister, said maintaining independence, standing up to coercion and expanding ties with neighboring countries should be the central pillars of Tehran\u2019s external engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors, he added, should be treated with \u201ccompassion\u201d and constructive cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Kharrazi said Iran should respond forcefully to adversaries that seek to undermine its sovereignty, arguing that Tehran\u2019s response should be proportionate to the level of hostility it faces.<\/p>\n<p>He described the United States as having been hostile to Iran \u201cfrom the outset\u201d, saying Iran had responded accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Kharrazi was speaking at a specialized panel of the first National Congress on Foreign Policy and the History of Foreign Relations, which began on Sunday at the foreign ministry\u2019s Institute for Political and International Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats and academics are discussing Iran\u2019s foreign relations and its place in the international system during the two-day event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran should make improving relations with its neighbors the top priority of its foreign policy, while firmly resisting external pressure, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday. Tehran &#8211; IranView24 Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and a former foreign minister, said maintaining independence, standing up to coercion and expanding ties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-foreign-policy","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranview24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}