{"id":715062,"date":"2026-06-20T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715062\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:00:09","slug":"live-updates-witkoff-heading-to-switzerland-for-iran-talks-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715062\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Witkoff heading to Switzerland for Iran talks, US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Washington and Tehran are working to get technical talks back on track<\/a> after a postponement<\/a> that saw US Vice President JD Vance scrap his trip to Switzerland for negotiations.\n <\/p>\n

\n Those talks were set to begin Friday, but were abruptly postponed<\/a> after a flare up in deadly attacks between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The combatants have now renewed their fragile truce, which has repeatedly threatened US-Iran negotiations.\n <\/p>\n

\n Israel has come under increasing criticism from its strongest ally, with Vance and President Donald Trump slamming<\/a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s offensive in Lebanon during peace talks.\n <\/p>\n

\n Most recently, however, Trump said his relationship with Netanyahu was steadfast. \u201cI\u2019ve always been good with Bibi,\u201d<\/a> he told NBC Friday. \u201cYou just gotta calm down sometimes and use your head.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Special envoy Steve Witkoff is now traveling to Switzerland<\/a>, a US official said, with Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner also expected to join. Witkoff and Kushner previously led negotiations with Iran to reach the initial memorandum of understanding.\n <\/p>\n

\n When exactly talks will resume remains unclear, but they will likely be held at the Swiss mountain resort of B\u00fcrgenstock<\/a>. On Friday, the Swiss foreign ministry said \u201cthe relevant preparatory work at B\u00fcrgenstock is continuing<\/a>.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Negotiators face a 60-day deadline<\/a> to reach a final deal.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN\u2019s Kevin Liptak, Aditi Sangal, Alejandra Jaramillo, Mustafa Qadri, Adam Pourahmadi and Ross Adkin contributed reporting.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington and Tehran are working to get technical talks back on track after a postponement that saw US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,29430,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-715062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-hnk","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}