{"id":2616701,"date":"2026-06-20T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-us-iran-talks-may-start-sunday-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:31:09","slug":"vance-says-us-iran-talks-may-start-sunday-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-us-iran-talks-may-start-sunday-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says US-Iran talks may start Sunday in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-says-us-iran-talks-may-start-sunday-in-switzerland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2616701&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President JD Vance expressed cautious optimism about upcoming negotiations with Iran in Switzerland, which were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salena-zito-downplays-uaw-endorsement-of-biden-as-not-reflective-of-rank-and-file-voters\/\" title=\"Salena Zito dismisses UAW endorsement of Biden as &#039;out of touch with regular voters\">initially delayed due<\/a> to fighting in Lebanon. Despite teh uncertainty and diplomatic complexities, Vance indicated that talks might start as early as Sunday, with technical discussions led by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wes-moore-vetoes-maryland-slavery-reparations-study\/\" title=\"Wes Moore vetoes Maryland slavery reparations study -\">highlighted recent progress<\/a>, including the release of 16 million barrels of oil from the straits of Hormuz, despite Iran\u2019s military closure of the strait citing perceived U.S. bad faith. The ongoing conflict in Lebanon remains a major obstacle, with tensions between Israel and Hezbollah continuing, potentially threatening the success of the agreement.Vance emphasized the importance of diplomatic protocol and international cooperation in these delicate negotiations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"7658\">JD Vance<\/a> voiced optimism that talks with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a> would begin on Sunday in Switzerland, but that the situation was \u201cin flux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talks were first scheduled to begin on Friday, but Iran\u2019s delegation delayed their flight amid the outbreak of fighting in Lebanon. After Iran\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed the delegation departed Iran on Saturday, Vance said talks would likely begin on Sunday, though with caveats.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4617543\/meloni-trump-attacks-senseless-defend-italy-national-interest\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Meloni calls Trump\u2019s attacks \u2018senseless\u2019 and says she will \u2018defend Italy\u2019s national interest\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4617519\/iran-close-strait-of-hormuz-again-diplomat-switzerland\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Iran says it closed the Strait of Hormuz again as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >diplomatic team heads<\/a> to Switzerland<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4617452\/israel-hezbollah-fight-after-ceasefire-lebanon\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Israel and Hezbollah continue fighting after ceasefire in Lebanon<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat may happen as soon as [Sunday], but these things are always a little bit in flux. Jared [Kushner] and Steve [Witkoff] have been on the ground now for a few hours dealing with some of the technical elements of this negotiation,\u201d he told <em>Fox &#038; Friends<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you guys know, one of the things the president has set us out to do as a high priority is to open the straits that\u2019s now happened,\u201d Vance continued. \u201cWe actually got 16 million barrels of oil out of the Straits of Hormuz yesterday. That is a record going back to even before the conflict started. So you\u2019re seeing those ships move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time as the interview, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the closure of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/strait-of-hormuz\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"21488\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> again, arguing it was due to the \u201cbad faith\u201d of the U.S. and \u201cits clear breach of its commitments\u201d by failing to end the war in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance said that \u201cthings were going well\u201d with negotiations so far, based on his conversations with Kushner and Witkoff. He said that he expected to leave to join the negotiations \u201csometime the next couple of days,\u201d but was uncertain of the exact timeline due to the \u201cdelicate coordination dance and the diplomatic protocols.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI got to be honest with you \u2014 I don\u2019t really understand these things. I\u2019ve never been a particularly into diplomatic protocols,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4617519\/iran-close-strait-of-hormuz-again-diplomat-switzerland\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4617519\">IRAN SAYS IT CLOSED THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AGAIN AS DIPLOMATIC TEAM HEADS TO SWITZERLAND<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy attitude is, let\u2019s get on the ground and actually fix these problems, but they want to do a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-rover-to-touch-down-in-mars-on-thursday\/\" title=\"NASA rover to touch down in Mars on Thursday\">delicate dance<\/a>, the Qataris and the Pakistanis want to make sure that we do this in the right way. So I\u2019m trying to be respectful given my position of the last year and a half, I have to care about diplomatic protocols all of a sudden,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fighting in Lebanon continues to be the greatest point of friction in negotiations, and the most likely place that could derail the MOU. Israel wasn\u2019t a party to negotiations, but the U.S. vowed to pressure the country to stop its war against Hezbollah as part of the deal. Israel has reacted with outrage and continued to exchange fire with Hezbollah, despite a renewed ceasefire on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance optimistic on Iran talks; delayed due to Lebanon conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2616702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26169609475043-e1781804886889.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32402,81475,81473,76406,81474],"class_list":["post-2616701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-international-relations","tag-middle-east-negotiations","tag-switzerland-diplomacy","tag-us-iran-talks","tag-vance-statement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26169609475043-e1781804886889.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616709,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616701\/revisions\/2616709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}