{"id":428798,"date":"2026-03-23T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/axios-indicates-intermediaries-passed-messages-between-iran-and-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:51:37","slug":"axios-indicates-intermediaries-passed-messages-between-iran-and-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/axios-indicates-intermediaries-passed-messages-between-iran-and-the-us-428798\/","title":{"rendered":"Axios indicates intermediaries passed messages between Iran and the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>From Axios reporter Barak Ravid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan have been passing messages between the U.S. and Iran over the past two days in an effort to de-escalate, U.S. source says<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Senior officials from the three countries held separate talks with White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the U.S. source says<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The mediation is ongoing and making progress. The discussion is about ending the war and resolving all outstanding issues. We hope to have answers soon,&#8221; the source says<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tend to think Ravid as a mouthpiece for the White House in this war.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing here is that he&#8217;s trying to establish that there were actually talks. That said, it doesn&#8217;t really push back on the idea that others contacted Iran and they said, &#8220;the US needs to stop first&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Axios reporter Barak Ravid: Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan have been passing messages between the U.S. and Iran over the past two days in an effort to de-escalate, U.S. source says Senior&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}