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The comments from afar — on social media and to news outlets — compli- cated efforts in Switzerland by Vice President JD Vance and mediators Pakistan and Qatar to keep Iran engaged in discussions meant to address thorny issues like Tehran’s nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz and the unfreezing of billions of dollars in Iranian assets.

Before anything, however, Iran wants to discuss Leba- non, where Israel’s military has been fighting the Irani- an-backed Hezbollah mili- tant group, since the deal halts conflict on all fronts. “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROX- IES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump said on social media. “If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!” “They would do better to be careful about their state- ments,” Iran’s lead negoti- ator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said on X after Trump’s comments.

“Our armed forces are prepared to respond to them in a differ- ent manner. They may keep talking, it is we who act.” Iranian state media said talks had entered a “difficult phase” and recessed after the “publication of an insult- ing message by the U.S. Presi- dent.” The Iranian delegation then met with Qatari media- tors and left the negotiating site, state media said.

Vance and U.S. negotia- tors, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, had met with Qalibaf and Foreign Minis- ter Abbas Araghchi for what Iranian state media said was about 80 minutes. It was not clear when they might meet again. An official with knowl- edge of the talks later told The Associated Press that the Iranian delegation remained engaged in the talks and has not indicated to mediators any intention to leave.

The official requested anonym- ity due to the sensitivity of the talks. Negotiators are in a 60-day sprint to reach an agreement on the technical details that hold massive implications for the world economy and global security. “The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together? Can we turn over a new leaf?” Vance said as the talks began, and asked whether they could “change relations in the Middle East perma- nently.” The U.S. wants Iran locked into negotiations over its nuclear program amid concerns it may be used for military purposes, which Iran denies.

Vance also wants Tehran to commit to keeping open the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran on Saturday claimed to close. The U.S. has disputed that, saying shipping traffic continued Sunday.

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That’s 10 years of farming around idle pump jacks and tabu- lating acres damaged by fluid leaks. Ten years of finding dead animals — birds and, once, a deer — in the open concrete pit the company dug out near its oil storage tanks to hold the salt water it once extracted from below ground. Ten years of waiting for the company, or the state, to restore his land. “I’m still waiting,” the 87-year-old said on a Thursday in May, sitting in his truck feet from those storage tanks — now rusted and tagged with graffiti — and that pit, filled with rainwater from a recent storm.

“I’ll be dead before it ever happens.” The wells on Myers’ property are among nearly 200 in central and southern Illinois once oper- ated by Duncan Oil Co., which has been locked in a two-decades-long court case with the state over its repeated failures to plug leaking or unproductive wells. The Illinois Department of Natu- ral Resources and the Illinois attor- ney general’s office sued Duncan Oil Co., and the subsequent settlement agreement halted the attempted transfer of those wells from Duncan to Dix Oil Co.

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