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High-level talks between Iran and the United States<\/a> <\/strong>resulted in \u201ca lot of good progress,\u201d Vice President JD Vance said as he left Switzerland on Monday after the two sides agreed on a road map toward reaching a final deal to end the war within 60 days.
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\u201cWe laid a very good foundation for a successful final deal,\u201d Vance <\/strong>said at a news briefing before he departed for the U.S. <\/strong>\u201cThe final deal is the house. We set the foundation. We haven\u2019t built the house, but we\u2019ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.\u201d
Technical negotiations were continuing in the mountaintop resort of B\u00fcrgenstock after a first round of marathon talks between senior figures from both countries. They had gotten off to a rough start, first canceled and then shaken by President Donald Trump\u2019s renewed threats.
Vance confirmed that Iran had threatened to walk out over those comments, but he defended Trump. \u201cWhat we told the Iranians yesterday is when you guys engage in what us millennials might call \u2018trash talk,\u2019 you can\u2019t expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,\u201d Vance said.
The talks ultimately resulted in a joint statement released by mediators Qatar and Pakistan that struck a similarly positive tone, describing a \u201cconstructive atmosphere.\u201d Washington and Tehran agreed to set up new communication lines to ensure the vital Strait of Hormuz is open and end fighting in Lebanon, mediators said.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led the delegation, said Monday that the management of the strait would not return to the situation before the war.
\u201cI was among the first people who clearly said at the beginning of the war that everyone should know the management of the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its previous state before the war,\u201d Ghalibaf said, according to the hard-line Student News Network. \u201cOf course, international laws are observed, and the Strait of Hormuz will be managed with respect to these laws and under Iranian arrangements by Iran.\u201d
Ghalibaf noted discussions about the Strait of Hormuz hotline and said: \u201cThis contact line is not for permission. Permission follows its own process. This line is only for resolving issues of ships or possible incidents so that clarification can be made. This is also because the strait is managed by Iran, and we resolve the issues.\u201d
Vance said Iran had agreed to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) back into the country.
\u201cLetting in the inspectors is a big deal, but, again, we\u2019re going to see what they actually let the inspectors do once they\u2019re in the country,\u201d he told reporters in Switzerland on Monday. \u201cThat\u2019s going to continually be a part of our negotiation.\u201d
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei did not specifically mention the return of IAEA inspectors in comments Iranian state TV posted<\/a> Monday on Telegram.
\u201cIran\u2019s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency will continue according to its normal procedure and in line with the resolutions of the parliament and the decisions of the Supreme National Security Council,\u201d Baghaei said. \u201cAccording to informed officials about the details of yesterday\u2019s talks in Switzerland, during the 18 hour negotiations, Iran did not hold any discussions on the nuclear file and has not accepted any new commitments.\u201d
Vance also said Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner came up with \u201ca very interesting solution\u201d to unfreezing Iran\u2019s assets that would involve U.S. and Qatari approval and then the use of the money to buy U.S. soy, corn and wheat. He said that was a \u201cclassic Trump deal.\u201d
\u201cThat money is not going to be unfrozen unless we continue to see progress, and that will obviously be a big part of the negotiation in the days to come,\u201d Vance told reporters in Switzerland on Monday.
Trump mentioned the planned arrangement to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
\u201cMoney that\u2019s being unfrozen is going to be used to buy food, and the food\u2019s going to be bought exclusively through the United States from our farmers,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd corn, soybeans, all of the things they need are going to be bought from our farmers.\u201d
Iran\u2019s semiofficial Mehr News Agency reported Monday that the negotiating team has departed from Switzerland \u201cafter approximately 18 hours of intensive talks and consultations.\u201d But the agency said Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi was heading the Iranian team in technical talks.
The new talks are meant to resolve some of the thorniest issues in the deal that are yet to be agreed upon, including Iran\u2019s nuclear program<\/a>.
One of the main outcomes of Sunday\u2019s talks was the establishment of a \u201cHigh Level Committee\u201d with political oversight of mediation, which agreed on a road map \u201ctowards reaching a final deal within 60 days, laying the foundation for the immediate commencement of further technical talks\u201d on nuclear weapons, sanctions and dispute resolution, the joint statement said.
The talks also led to the creation of a deconfliction line between the parties and Lebanon, it said. Fighting in southern Lebanon between Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Israel has continued even as talks in Switzerland progressed. Vance said Monday the U.S. was in \u201cconstant contact\u201d with Israel during the talks, after Israel was effectively shut out of the negotiation process.
A communication line has also been set up to prevent \u201cincidents and miscommunication\u201d to allow safe passage of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global supply route for oil that has been blockaded for months.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Monday on X<\/a> that the first meeting of the committee had \u201cconcluded successfully\u201d in B\u00fcrgenstock.
The Swiss foreign ministry said it welcomed constructive progress made during the \u201cintensive diplomatic talks,\u201d which it said continued throughout the night. It called establishingment of the committee a \u201cpositive step, which will help to structure the next phase of the political and technical process.\u201d
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi warned Monday on X<\/a> that the deconfliction cell will be the first \u201creal test\u201d of the new progress, as he also touted \u201cmajor progress to end [the] Lebanon War\u201d and noted progress on oil exports, frozen Iranian assets and major reconstruction plans for Iran.
Global oil prices fell Monday after the talks concluded in Switzerland, easing worries about a supply shortage in global markets.
But the talks had been jolted by new threats from Trump, who warned the U.S. could resume attacks on Iran as Tehran once again shut down the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, citing ceasefire violations by Israel in Lebanon.
On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social that \u201cwe\u2019ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!\u201d unless it stops \u201ctheir highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon,\u201d referring to Hezbollah.
And in a phone interview Sunday morning with Fox News, Trump said he spoke with Iran overnight, delivering a stark warning that if it closes the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. will \u201cblow the s— out of them.\u201d
Baghaei, Iran\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, warned Monday that Tehran will no longer negotiate directly if such threats continue, the Student News Network reported.
Yuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.
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