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Nuclear Inspectors

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Liz Wolfe | 6.22.2026 9:30 AM

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At long last: "Yesterday was a very, very good day," Vice President J.D. Vance told reporters from Switzerland, where he met with an Iranian delegation as well as mediators from Pakistan and Qatar to hammer out a Middle East peace deal. "We made a lot of good progress. We did exactly what we wanted to do."

Vance noted "that Iran had promised to readmit nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a U.N. watchdog, though Iran did not immediately confirm that," reports The New York Times. 

"Earlier, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said sanctions on his country's oil were waived, some of its frozen assets released, and that a 'reconstruction and development plan' was launched," reports CNN. The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, in southern Lebanon, remains a "work in progress" according to Vance.

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