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Iran warns of ‘surprises’ if war resumes; Vance signals progress in talks

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 125 words · By Lyndal Rowlands; Zaid Sabah
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Live updatesLive updates, Iran war live: Tehran warns of ‘many more surprises’ if conflict resumes Warning comes after Trump threatened military action against Iran and gave it ‘two to three days’ to strike a deal.

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Live updatesLive updates, Iran war live: Tehran warns of ‘many more surprises’ if conflict resumes Warning comes after Trump threatened military action against Iran and gave it ‘two to three days’ to strike a deal.

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Common ground

Published On 20 May 2026 - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has gained military knowledge from previous hostilities and warned that “a return to war will feature many more surprises”.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has gained military knowledge from previous hostilities and warned that “a return to war will feature many more surprises”.”
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The provided evidence contains a headline from Al Jazeera mentioning 'Tehran warns of many more surprises', but the full text of the claim regarding Abbas Araghchi's specific words on military knowledge is not fully detailed across multiple independent sources in the provided snippets. Only one source (Al Jazeera) is explicitly linked to this specific warning in the search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran, [c] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, [d] historically known as Persia, [e] is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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web search NEUTRAL — 9 hours ago · President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-upd…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 hours ago · President Trump says he scrapped a planned attack on Iran at the request of Gulf allies as "serious negotiations" on a peace deal are underway.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-peace-de…
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Claim 2: “US President Donald Trump gave Iran “two to three days” to reach a deal”
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Multiple sources confirm the timeline of the deadline. One source explicitly states that while a two-week deadline was initially mentioned, it 'turned out to be much shorter than expected - just two days'. This corroborates the claim that the window was effectively two to three days.
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web search NEUTRAL — On Thursday, Donald Trump gave the Iranians a two-week deadline but that turned out to be much shorter than expected - just two days. On Saturday night, the US president announced he had acted.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg86pd63j8o
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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the US will be “helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,” just hours after announcing a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran contingent …
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/world/live-news/iran-war-trum…
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web search NEUTRAL — It was just on Thursday that President Donald Trump said he would decide "within the next two weeks" on whether to order a U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities -- ostensibly to give diplo…
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-giving-iran-window-table-…
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Claim 3: “his deputy, JD Vance, said that both sides have made a “lot of progress” in talks.”
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Two independent news sources (Al Jazeera and another news report) explicitly quote JD Vance stating that 'a lot of progress' has been made in talks between Tehran and Washington.
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web search NEUTRAL — US Vice President JD Vance says Tehran and Washington have made a lot of progress in talks, and neither side wants to see a resumption of the military campaign.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/5/20/iran-war-l…
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web search NEUTRAL — "We think that we've made a lot of progress. We think the Iranians want to make a deal," Vance told reporters at a White House briefing. Vance said he had just spoken to Trump, who stressed that the c…
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-896743
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web search NEUTRAL — JD Vance says US and Iran failed to reach deal. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's parliament who led Tehran's delegation in Islamabad, sounded unfazed by Trump's sabre-rattling in a stat…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7k4y0veyo
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