{"id":225620,"date":"2026-03-01T00:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-calls-for-restraint-dialogue-as-u-s-israel-war-with-iran-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:48:23","slug":"nigeria-calls-for-restraint-dialogue-as-u-s-israel-war-with-iran-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-calls-for-restraint-dialogue-as-u-s-israel-war-with-iran-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Calls for Restraint, Dialogue As U.S.\/Israel War With Iran Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The Nigerian government urged the warring parties to avoid actions that are likely to intensify hostilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Nigerian government has called for restraint and a return to negotiation as US and Israel continue their war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In a statement on Saturday night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed &#8220;deep concern&#8221; over the violence that has ensued since the US and Israel attacked Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nigeria urged the warring sides to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602280215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government urged the warring parties to avoid actions that are likely to intensify hostilities. The Nigerian government has called for restraint and a return to negotiation as US and Israel continue their war with Iran. In a statement on Saturday night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed &#8220;deep concern&#8221; over the violence that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6137,5106,6688,7539,257,4687,393,11095,254,53785,6618],"class_list":["post-225620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-continues","tag-dialogue","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-restraint","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-israel","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}