BUERGENSTOCK, Jun 21: US Vice President JD Vance led talks at a Swiss resort on Sunday to shore up a tentative peace deal with Iran, but the diplomacy was clouded by Iran's announcement it had closed the Strait of Hormuz over Washington's failure to halt fighting in Lebanon.
A memorandum of understanding on a path to end the war, agreed a week ago, calls for the Strait to be reopened and a halt to all hostilities, including in Lebanon, which Washington's ally Israel invaded in March.
US Vice President JD Vance said he hopes Washington and Tehran can reset their relationship, at the start of what he called "historic" talks in Switzerland on Sunday.
Yet, as the meeting was happening, US President Donald Trump threatened in an online post to strike Iran if it did not "immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble".
Vance, flanked by US negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, was at the luxury Burgenstock resort overlooking Lake Lucerne for talks with Tehan's negotiators on the preliminary US-Iran deal to halt the Middle East war.
"This is a historic meeting," Vance said in the negotiation room, set up with for the US team on one side and for the Iranian delegation on the other.
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