{"id":273937,"date":"2026-06-22T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273937\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:16:10","slug":"iran-will-let-un-nuke-inspectors-back-in-could-buy-us-crops-with-unfrozen-assets-vance-says-after-two-days-of-switzerland-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273937\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran will let UN nuke inspectors back in, could buy US crops with unfrozen assets, Vance says after two days of Switzerland talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran will allow United Nations nuclear inspectors into the country<\/a> following two days of talks in Switzerland, Vice President JD Vance announced Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranians have agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back into their country,\u201d Vance told reporters<\/a> in Lucerne before returning to Washington. \u201cThat is a major milestone for the American people and the first step in permanently denuclearizing, or permanently ending a nuclear weapons program in Iran, and that\u2019s exactly what we want to do. That\u2019s exactly what we asked to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tehran did not immediately confirm Vance\u2019s statement. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have entered Iran since last year\u2019s 12-day war between Israel and the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

However, Iran has refused access to three nuclear facilities bombed by the US on June 21, 2025, where nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium is believed to be buried. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe laid a very good foundation for a successful final deal,\u201d Vance added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe final deal is the house. We set the foundation, we haven\u2019t built the house, but we\u2019ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vice president also claimed that the two sides had established \u201cmechanisms\u201d to resolve disputes over the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> as well as the latest cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon \u2014 which appeared to be holding as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Vance did not elaborate on what those \u201cmechanisms\u201d were beyond \u201cactually talking to each other and figuring out how to stop the shooting.\u201d However, a joint statement<\/a> by mediators from Pakistan and Qatar said a \u201cde-confliction cell\u201d involving the US, Iran, and Lebanon \u2014 but apparently not Israel \u2014 would be created to \u201censure the adherence of the termination of military operations in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vice president further stated that any Iranian assets that are unfrozen as the result of a final peace deal could be used to purchase American soy, corn and wheat \u201cfor the benefit of the Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance credited President Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with coming up with the idea alongside the Qataris, calling it \u201ca classic Trump deal, where if Iranian assets are ever unfrozen, they\u2019re going to go to make American farmers richer and to feed the Iranian people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a very, very good and very classic Trump deal that\u2019s great for our people, great for the people of Iran, and fundamentally, again, will contribute to this regional security architecture that we\u2019ve built, and that we\u2019re going to work very hard to ensure that it endures,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance spent two days in Switzerland for talks with Iranian officials. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

A satellite image shows the Fordow nuclear complex in Iran after US strikes in June 2025. DigitalGlobe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Vance\u2019s comments Monday followed a series of blistering statements from Trump Sunday, including a threat to seize the Strait of Hormuz and \u201cblow the s\u2013t out of\u201d Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The VP confirmed Monday that the comments by the president had caused the Iranians to \u201cthreaten to walk out, or at least there were social media threats that they would walk out, but we were negotiating well past one in the morning yesterday, so they didn\u2019t walk out, and their technical team is still here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance ultimately shrugged off the comments, telling reporters: \u201cWhat we told the Iranians yesterday is, \u2018When you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can\u2019t expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,\u2019 so when they say things that aren\u2019t true, the president is going to respond to it, I\u2019m going to respond to it, Americans are going to respond to it.<\/p>\n

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (center) and Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (right) confer on a flight to Zurich Sunday. Office of Iranian Parliament Speaker\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they make threats that aren\u2019t rooted in reality, they have to accept that the president of the United States is actually going to set the record straight. That\u2019s all that happened. So, yes, there was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining, but at the end of the day, the talks continued, and we made great progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pakistan-Qatar joint statement confirmed that while high-level negotiations had wrapped up, technical talks would continue in Switzerland for the rest of this week, with Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff taking the lead for the Americans.<\/p>\n

An interim deal to end more than three months of fighting between the US and Iran, signed by Trump last week<\/a>, opens a 60-day window for negotiators to settle the future of Tehran\u2019s nuclear program as well as billions in frozen Iranian assets, among other issues.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran will allow United Nations nuclear inspectors into the country following two days of talks in Switzerland, Vice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,14670,72882,11749,9,11,10,62206,87,58],"class_list":["post-273937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-jd-vance","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}