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J.D. Vance is joined by special envoys Whitcoff and Kushner to move these talks forward on the American side. Iran's parliament speaker Mohammed Kalibov and the country's foreign minister Abbas Argochi will represent the Iranian side. Vice President Vance spoke about the detailed talks before departing. Well, I think number one, just getting things set up in the right way and getting the actual structure of the negotiation in place. So the way that we're going to do this is that we're going to have a principal level political leadership at the top, and then obviously the next thing is going to stay on the ground. I think we're going to hopefully make progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon fire issue. Those are the two big things that I think we're going to be focused on. The issue of Lebanon remains a major sticking point. Five Israeli soldiers were killed by Hezbollah in the course of 48 hours over the weekend. The Israelis responded with heavy airstrikes across southern Lebanon. Now, in response, the Iranians claim they are closing the Strait of Hormuz, something U.S. officials pushed back against, saying that U.S. forces remain in control. President Trump posted a true social about...