{"id":1037871,"date":"2026-06-20T01:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1037871\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:42:18","slug":"white-house-envoy-witkoff-heading-to-switzerland-for-u-s-iran-nuclear-talks-axios-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1037871\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Envoy Witkoff Heading to Switzerland for U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks, Axios Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House envoy Steve Witkoff is on his way to Switzerland, where talks between the United States and Iran on a nuclear deal are set to take place, Axios reported on Friday night.<\/p>\n

According to the report, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is already in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The start of the negotiations on the agreement<\/a>, which was scheduled to take place on Friday in Switzerland, was postponed. The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen network reported that the Iranian negotiating delegation delayed its arrival due to Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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The White House subsequently announced that U.S. Vice President JD Vance would not depart for Switzerland on Friday, stating: “The logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable. We look forward to beginning these talks as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

A diplomatic source who spoke with Haaretz noted that the cancellation of the talks did not come as a surprise. According to the source, Iran attempted to force its own interpretation <\/a>of a clause in the memorandum of understanding concerning Lebanon onto the other parties.<\/p>\n

According to this clause, upon signing the memorandum, the countries declare an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House envoy Steve Witkoff is on his way to Switzerland, where talks between the United States and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,836,192112,83866,75529,129858,601,49,978,659],"class_list":["post-1037871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-iran-u-s","tag-israel-iran","tag-jared-kushner","tag-jd-vance","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}