{"id":169963,"date":"2026-06-21T04:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/169963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T04:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:10:19","slug":"u-s-and-iranian-officials-to-meet-for-peace-talks-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/169963\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Iranian Officials to Meet for Peace Talks in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Iranian negotiating team arrived in Switzerland on Saturday for talks with American officials, according to Iranian state media, and Vice President JD Vance is traveling to join them, with both sides aiming to flesh out the preliminary deal to end the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

Pakistan, which has served as an intermediary in the peace effort, said on Saturday that \u201ctechnical talks\u201d would kick off on Sunday in Switzerland, including officials from Washington and Tehran, as well as Pakistani and Qatari mediators.<\/p>\n

It was not clear if the talks would be face-to-face discussions, as in the last round in Islamabad, Pakistan, where both sides failed to reach an agreement<\/a> after 21 hours of negotiating.<\/p>\n

Before departing from Joint Base Andrews on Saturday, Mr. Vance told reporters that he would be in Switzerland for peace talks \u201cfor a day or two.\u201d Earlier, he told Fox News that President Trump\u2019s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, were already in Switzerland ready to negotiate.<\/p>\n

Iranian state media reported on Saturday that Tehran\u2019s delegation was led by Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran\u2019s lead negotiator in past talks and the speaker of Iran\u2019s parliament. He is joined by Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, and Esmail Baghaei, the foreign ministry\u2019s spokesman, among other officials, state media said.<\/p>\n

The discussions come at a delicate time. The next phase of U.S.-Iranian talks was scheduled to start on Friday, but it was postponed after continued clashes between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. Tehran said the Israeli strikes violated the memorandum of understanding, and Iran\u2019s military went further on Saturday, claiming to close the Strait of Hormuz in response.<\/p>\n

There are many other thorny questions<\/a> that could be discussed during negotiations. President Trump\u2019s interim agreement with Iran punted the future of Iran\u2019s nuclear program to future talks, did not address Iran\u2019s missile program and failed to resolve whether the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial maritime trade route off southern Iran, would remain open for free passage.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Baghaei told state media on Saturday that the trip was intended to \u201cfollow up on the implementation of the other side\u2019s commitments,\u201d and warned that \u201cnegotiations on a final agreement\u201d would begin only when Iran believes the United States is upholding the deal.<\/p>\n

Tehran has accused the United States of reneging on commitments in the agreement by failing to rein in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, which exchanged fire again on Saturday, despite the announcement of a cease-fire in Lebanon on Friday. The U.S.-Iranian agreement calls for a cease-fire on all fronts, including Lebanon, but neither Israel nor Hezbollah have signed onto the pact.<\/p>\n

Mr. Vance told reporters before departing on Saturday that he hoped negotiators would \u201cmake progress on the nuclear issue\u201d and the \u201cLebanon cease-fire issue,\u201d adding that he was \u201csure the Iranians are going to have issues they\u2019d like to discuss as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanam Mahoozi and Zolan Kanno-Youngs contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Iranian negotiating team arrived in Switzerland on Saturday for talks with American officials, according to Iranian state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[4101,4102,34,28198,12619,1717,4062,1257],"class_list":["post-169963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-abbas","tag-araghchi","tag-iran","tag-j-d","tag-peace-process","tag-switzerland","tag-united-states-international-relations","tag-vance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116786143025634701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}