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Vice President JD Vance has hailed “great progress” in negotiations with Iran. President Donald Trump says Iran “will agree” to have weapons inspections.
Iran’s top negotiators depart Switzerland for Tehran after 18 hours of intensive talks as a team remains to continue technical negotiations on the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.











