US President JD Vance declared Monday that a “very good foundation” had been laid for negotiations towards a final deal with Iran, after a marathon session of direct talks at a mountain-top resort Switzerland.
Tehran has agreed for inspectors from the UN’s nuclear watchdog to return to the country, Vance said, a year after Iran suspended some cooperation and blocked inspectors from key nuclear sites bombed by the US and Israel in 2025’s 12-day war.
Last week, Tehran and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding laying the groundwork for the negotiations, after nearly 40 days of fighting that was followed by weeks of an inconclusive and oft-breached ceasefire.
Bern said conditions had been set for technical talks to immediately follow in Switzerland, with the two sides at the beginning of a 60-day period to secure a long-term settlement.
“We laid a very good foundation for a successful final deal,” Vance told reporters at Switzerland’s luxury Burgenstock resort, adding that “the final deal is the house… We haven’t built the house, but we’ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people”.
