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Vance has arrived in Switzerland for high-stakes US-Iran negotiations aimed at reaching a permanent end to the war.
The talks are structured to open with the Israeli-Hizbollah conflict in Lebanon — framing the Lebanese front as the entry point into a much larger diplomatic effort between Washington and Tehran.
Lebanon First: A Sequenced Approach Leading with the Israeli-Hizbollah conflict puts the most active and visible theatre of fighting at the top of the Switzerland agenda.
Lebanon sits at the intersection of Iranian regional influence and Israeli security concerns, making it both the most tractable immediate issue and a direct test of whether US-Iran diplomacy can deliver results on the ground.
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