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Iran's delegation connected Sunday (June 21, 2026) walked retired of the Swiss venue wherever it held talks with the United States towards permanently ending the West Asia war, aft Donald Trump threatened to onslaught the Islamic republic implicit its enactment for Hezbollah.
The negotiations to extremity a warfare that sowed chaos crossed the portion and rattled the planetary system are meant to trigger a 60-day play to settee broader issues that person dogged U.S.-Iranian relations for decades.
But disagreement implicit cardinal sticking points and the menace of renewed warring successful Lebanon weighed connected the talks, with Washington and Tehran exchanging threats successful parallel with the negotiations.
"The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, aft gathering with the Qatari delegation arsenic 1 of the mediating parties, near the gathering wherever the negotiations were being held," Iran's authorities quality bureau IRNA said.
"At the aforesaid clip arsenic the talks began successful Switzerland, Donald Trump published a connection connected X successful which helium repeated his threats and remarks against Iran," it added.
A diplomat with cognition of the talks, however, told AFP that the Iranians had not discontinue the negotiations.
"The Iranian delegation remains engaged successful the talks and has not indicated to the mediators immoderate volition to leave," the diplomat said connected information of anonymity.
Mr. Trump had earlier threatened to onslaught Iran if it did not "immediately halt their highly paid PROXIES successful Lebanon from causing trouble".
Iran deed backmost with a informing of its own.
"They would bash amended to beryllium cautious with their statements; our equipped forces are acceptable to respond to them successful a antithetic manner. No substance what they say, we are the ones who act," Iran's main negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.
