{"id":11947,"date":"2026-06-21T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:08:00","slug":"j-d-vance-is-on-his-way-to-switzerland-u-s-iran-negotiations-begin-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11947","title":{"rendered":"J.D. Vance is on his way to Switzerland \u2013 U.S.-Iran negotiations begin tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>J.D. Vance<\/b> will represent <b>Donald Trump<\/b> in negotiations with <b>Iran<\/b>, which will begin tomorrow, Sunday (June 21, 2026) in Burgstock, <b>Switzerland <\/b>, with an Iranian delegation, including the leadership of <b>Pakistan <\/b>and <b>Qatar<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s attacks on <b>Lebanon<\/b> remain a point of contention. Earlier today, <b> Donald Trump <\/b> raised the issue of tolls in the <b>Strait of Hormuz<\/b>, in response to Iran\u2019s announcement that it would close the Strait. \u201c<b>No tolls will be imposed after the 60-day period expires, unless they are imposed by and on behalf of the United States of America, in the event that the agreement is not finalized<\/b>,\u201d Donald Trump warned. <\/p>\n<p>Given these circumstances, the <b>U.S. Vice President,Jay D. Vance<\/b>, departed tonight (June 20, 2026) from Washington to Switzerland to participate in the talks set to begin tomorrow with <b>Iran<\/b>. A few days ago, he had stated that he would only be able to stay in Switzerland for \u201ca day or two\u201d and expressed hope that progress would be made on the nuclear issue and regarding the ceasefire in <b>Lebanon<\/b>. Jay D. Vance will be accompanied by U.S. negotiators <b>Jared Kushner<\/b> and <b>Steve Whitecoff<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister of <b>P<\/b><b>akistan, Shehbaz Sharif<\/b>, and the Chief of the Army,<b>General Syed Asim Munir<\/b>, will participate in the talks, at the technical level, which will take place in Burgenstock, Switzerland, tomorrow, Sunday, the Prime Minister\u2019s office announced tonight. According to Islamabad, representatives from Qatar will also be present.<\/p>\n<p>An Iranian delegation that had departed earlier has already arrived in Switzerland, according to Iranian media reports. The Iranian delegation is headed by the Speaker of Parliament <b>Mohammad Bayer Galibaf<\/b>. Also participating are Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and high-ranking officials from the security services, the central bank, and the oil sector, according to Iranian media.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry <b>Esmail Baghai<\/b> said that \u201cTehran will exert pressure to ensure that commitments are honored,\u201d arguing that \u201cin the past, the other side has not honored its agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. Vance will represent Donald Trump in the negotiations with Iran, which are set to begin tomorrow, Sunday (June 21, 2026) in Burgenstock &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}