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The comments from afar \u2014 on social media and to news outlets \u2014 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\u2019s nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz and the unfreezing of billions of dollars in Iranian assets.<\/p>\n

Before anything, however, Iran wants to discuss Leba- non, where Israel\u2019s military has been fighting the Irani- an-backed Hezbollah mili- tant group, since the deal halts conflict on all fronts. \u201cIran must immediately stop their highly paid PROX- IES in Lebanon from causing trouble,\u201d Trump said on social media. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, we\u2019ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!\u201d \u201cThey would do better to be careful about their state- ments,\u201d Iran\u2019s lead negoti- ator, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said on X after Trump\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur armed forces are prepared to respond to them in a differ- ent manner. They may keep talking, it is we who act.\u201d Iranian state media said talks had entered a \u201cdifficult phase\u201d and recessed after the \u201cpublication of an insult- ing message by the U.S. Presi- dent.\u201d The Iranian delegation then met with Qatari media- tors and left the negotiating site, state media said.<\/p>\n

Vance and U.S. negotia- tors, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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. \u201cThe question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together? Can we turn over a new leaf?\u201d Vance said as the talks began, and asked whether they could \u201cchange relations in the Middle East perma- nently.\u201d The U.S. wants Iran locked into negotiations over its nuclear program amid concerns it may be used for military purposes, which Iran denies.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s 10 years of farming around idle pump jacks and tabu- lating acres damaged by fluid leaks. Ten years of finding dead animals \u2014 birds and, once, a deer \u2014 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. \u201cI\u2019m still waiting,\u201d the 87-year-old said on a Thursday in May, sitting in his truck feet from those storage tanks \u2014 now rusted and tagged with graffiti \u2014 and that pit, filled with rainwater from a recent storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be dead before it ever happens.\u201d The wells on Myers\u2019 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\u2019s office sued Duncan Oil Co., and the subsequent settlement agreement halted the attempted transfer of those wells from Duncan to Dix Oil Co.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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