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Pakistan says talks between the United States and Iran that were suspended on Friday will resume in Switzerland on Sunday, as Tehran announced it is closing the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israel’s attack on Lebanon.
The spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Esmail Baghaei, confirmed on Saturday that the Iranian delegation, including the Speaker of the Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi and other officials, are going to Switzerland.
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In Washington, Vice President JD Vance confirmed that the US officials who are negotiating with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were already in Switzerland using the details of the expected negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.
Vance told Fox News that he hopes to travel to Switzerland “sometime in the next couple of days” but admitted that “it’s always going to be an uneven dance.”
The meeting scheduled for Sunday will begin technical negotiations on the final US-Iran deal. Then after both sides signed a contract of cooperation (MoU) earlier in the week announced the end of “war on all fronts”, including in Lebanon.
The The MoU states that the final agreement must be reached within 60 days, “extended and agreed”.
But even reaching the negotiating table to implement the MoU proved to be difficult. The talks scheduled for Friday were rescheduled after Iran failed to send its representativesthat Israel’s murderous attacks continued in Lebanon.
Even Israel accepted the reform ceasefire with Hezbollah on FridayTheir attacks on Lebanon continued on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, according to reports from Lebanese security forces and state media.
On Friday, an Israeli attack killed 83 people and wounded 141, Lebanon’s health ministry said.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Saturday announced that it was reimposing restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz over Israel’s “crimes” in Lebanon and what it called violations of the US
It warned crew members not to approach the waterway, saying their safety would be at risk if they did so.
Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, warned that the flow of power in the Middle East will end as long as the US-Iran deal “remains on paper”.
The US military said its forces are still operating “in the entire area” of the Strait of Hormuz and are “remaining present and alert” to ensure that “all aspects of the agreement with Iran are being followed”. It said 55 commercial vessels had passed through the channel on Saturday and the safe passage was still “not clear”.
‘Things are going backwards’
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, the mediators between Pakistan and Qatar will join the US-Iran talks on Sunday in Switzerland in the mountains of Burgenstock.
Speaking from there, Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid said there had been a lot of pressure going on behind the scenes ahead of the talks, with Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, already holding meetings. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, has been holding talks in Egypt and Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, has gone to Iran.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Baghaei indicated that progress would be possible until Iran sees that the US is doing well. long term contract.
In a statement broadcast by Iran’s IRIB, Baghaei said that Iran “must be firm and serious in order to fulfill its demands” in view of the “failure to respect the commitments of the US”.
Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from Burgenstock, said that there are signs “things are going backwards since the MoU was signed”, referring to the continued Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon.
“The Iranians see this as a serious violation of the MoU,” he said. “Their first punishment was not to come here. Now they will use their best weapon to close the Strait of Hormuz.
“Iran believes that this strategy will help restore the situation in southern Lebanon,” Bays added.
