US vice president JD Vance has landed in Switzerland this morning to help formally launch Washington’s negotiations with Iranian leaders over curbing Tehran’s nuclear program and building out the fragile interim deal to end the war in Iran.
Tehran’s negotiators, including parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, along with central bank and oil officials, are already in the Swiss city of Zurich.
The talks will kickstart at the Burgenstock luxury hotel complex in Switzerland shortly.
This comes as US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose tolls on the Strait of Hormuz if the deal with Iran is not completed.
Iran said it would close the crucial waterway to tankers, citing alleged violations of the ceasefire by the US and Israel.
The US military had said that traffic continued to flow through the Strait and the US is monitoring the situation to ensure that continues.
But Trump took to social media to insist that there should be no tolls during the cease fire period “unless they are imposed by and for” the US “for services rendered as the Guardian Angel” to the Middle East.
