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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
William Christou in Beirut and Jonathan Yerushalmy

UNCOVERED: Us iran talks in switzerland abruptly called off - Caught on Camera

JD Vance at the White House
JD Vance told reporters on Thursday that continued fighting in Lebanon was ‘not acceptable’. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

Talks due to take place on Friday between the US ⁠and ​Iran in Switzerland to implement a peace deal were cancelled as Hezbollah killed four Israeli soldiers and Israel carried out a wave of retaliatory airstrikes in south Lebanon and the Bekaa valley that killed at least 18 people.

The talks had been due to begin in the Swiss village of Obbürgen two days after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that opened a 60-day window to negotiate a permanent understanding over Iran’s nuclear programme, while getting oil traffic moving through the strait of Hormuz.

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