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Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland on Saturday ahead of the first direct U.S.-Iran nuclear talks since the Islamabad summit last April, with negotiations set to begin Sunday at the Burgenstock ski resort.
The diplomatic opening carries immediate geopolitical freight: Iran claimed Saturday it was shutting down the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon, injecting a supply-route flashpoint into talks already complicated by the region's fragile security picture.
White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flew in Saturday morning to anchor the U.S.
Structure of the Talks The Burgenstock session is designed to launch 60 days of nuclear negotiations, with the first round aimed, in Vance's framing, at "getting the actual structure and negotiation in place." Vance said he expected to remain for "a day or two," with the broader talks lasting "a couple days" before technical working-level discussions extend the process.
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