Vance, Iranians in Switzerland for first talks, overshadowed by closure of Strait

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived for peace talks with Iran at a Swiss mountaintop resort on Sunday as foreseen in a tentative peace deal, but the diplomacy was overshadowed by Iran’s announcement that it had reimposed its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

A memorandum of understanding on a path to end the war, agreed a week ago, calls for the Strait to be reopened and a halt to all hostilities, including in Lebanon, which Washington’s ally Israel invaded in March....