{"id":21879,"date":"2026-04-25T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pompeo-casts-doubt-on-renewed-us-iran-talks-im-not-optimistic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:22:17","slug":"pompeo-casts-doubt-on-renewed-us-iran-talks-im-not-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pompeo-casts-doubt-on-renewed-us-iran-talks-im-not-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo casts doubt on renewed US-Iran talks: \u2018I\u2019m not optimistic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that he is &ldquo;not optimistic&rdquo; about U.S. and Iranian officials reaching an agreement to end hostilities when they meet for another round of indirect peace talks in Islamabad on Saturday. &ldquo;Look, I don&rsquo;t fault them [U.S. officials] for trying to go engage in diplomacy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5848707-pompeo-trump-us-iran-talks-pakistan\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that he is &ldquo;not optimistic&rdquo; about U.S. and Iranian officials reaching an agreement to end hostilities when they meet for another round of indirect peace talks in Islamabad on Saturday. &ldquo;Look, I don&rsquo;t fault them [U.S. officials] for trying to go engage in diplomacy&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}