The Japan Times67%
U.S. and Iran set for new talks with with status of Hormuz in question 47%
By AFP-JIJI0%
6/20/2026, 11:01:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 32.8% saturation with 152 hits. Analysis detected 775 faulty-reasoning hits from 463 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.8% and a BS Rank of 47% (11,618 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 53.10% of the article peer group.
Geneva – A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off Sunday, with Iranian negotiators arriving in the Swiss host city hours ahead of U.S.
Vice President JD Vance, even as Tehran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
Before boarding his flight to Europe, Vance told reporters he hoped to “make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue.
Those are the two big things that I think we’re going to be focused on.”
Follow-up talks had been planned in Switzerland on Friday but were postponed at the last minute after Israel launched deadly strikes in Lebanon following the deaths of four of its soldiers in combat.
Washington announced a renewed ceasefire there later Friday — a condition of its preliminary agreement with Iran — but Israeli troops clashed again with Hezbollah fighters on Saturday, with each side accusing the other of breaking the truce.
Citing a U.S. “breach of contract” and “the Zionist regime’s continuous and relentless violation of the ceasefire in southern Lebanon,” Iran’s central military command said “the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to vessel traffic.”
Hormuz, a key conduit for oil and gas shipments, was blockaded by Iran for much of the war, sending shock waves through global energy markets.
Tehran had agreed to reopen it under the preliminary accord signed by U.S.
President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, and shipping traffic had begun to recover.
U.S.
Central Command said after Iran’s announcement that safe passage through the international waterway had “remained intact” and that U.S. forces were “present and vigilant.”
Trump later warned that Washington could impose its own tolls on Hormuz if negotiators failed to complete the deal.
There would be no tolls “unless they are imposed by and for the United States of America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
An Iranian delegation arrived in Switzerland late Saturday, state media and the Swiss Foreign Ministry said.
Iran’s official broadcaster said it included parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the delegation would “demand implementation of the other party’s commitments” under the deal.
“Otherwise, the entire understanding will be in trouble,” he said, according to official news agency IRNA.
Vance left Washington on an afternoon flight to join the talks, saying he could only stay “a day or two.”
U.S. negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were already there handling “some of the technical elements” and had reported that “things are going well,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News earlier Saturday.
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