Middle East Crisis Peace Talks

Talks between Iran and the US in Switzerland are canceled

Talks between the US and Iran that were to be held on Friday are canceled. This is stated by the Swiss Foreign Ministry, according to Reuters.

The White House has previously announced that US Vice President JD Vance is postponing his trip.

"The logistics of these negotiations have never been simple or predictable," a statement says.

The talks would be the next step in peace negotiations between the US and Iran. Countries have 60 days to reach an agreement on, among other things, nuclear weapons, in order to sign a permanent peace treaty, writes Bloomberg.

Analysis: Trump's Versailles Peace is a real defeat

When Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, it was one of the most famous capitulations in history. The agreement Trump signed in Versailles yesterday is not much better, points out Michael Winiarski in DN.

“It is a complete reversal of what Trump said at the beginning of the war: A peace agreement requires Iran’s ‘total surrender’. He will now have to eat those words,” he writes.

The framework agreement actually gives Iran most of what the regime in Tehran could have dreamed of, continues Winiarski.

Andrew Roth in The Guardian also agrees that Trump started the war with maximalist goals, and is leaving significantly less ambitious. It almost sounds like he is reading out Iranian talking points when he talks about the agreement, Roth writes.

For Daniel Bush in the BBC, the big question is what spin the White House will put on the agreement. He points out that Vice President JD Vance spent a 47-minute press conference denying that Iran will get anything out of the agreement until the country proves that it can “behave.”

“It will be interesting to see if Vance sticks to his arguments or changes course and starts looking for other ways to make the agreement look like a victory for the American people,” he writes.