The Swiss Foreign Ministry announced late last night, Washington time, that the US-Iran meeting set for today in Burgenstock, Switzerland had been postponed. The Swiss announcement came after US Vice President J.D. Vance dropped plans to travel there, fuelling uncertainty whether a lasting truce can be found, reported Reuters. “The logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement on Thursday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismael Baqaei confirmed the postponement in a statement on X today: “Negotiations in Geneva are suspended and postponed to a later date until the MoU terms are implemented.”
The Iranian negotiating delegation had earlier postponed its trip to Switzerland due to the ongoing Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon, an informed source told Al Mayadeen on Thursday. According to the source, the delegation had already been preparing to depart Iran and launch the first round of negotiations, scheduled to span 60 days, before the decision to suspend the trip was made.
Tehran had previously informed both Washington and the mediators that the Lebanon file remains a central component of the negotiations and will directly influence whether the talks proceed, the source stated, citing Iranian warnings that continued Israeli aggression extending up to 10 kilometers deep inside Lebanese territory constitutes a clear violation of the first clause of the Memorandum of Understanding and the framework agreement.
