Iran has agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors back in to the country, Vice President JD Vance announced.

Vance addressed reporters in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he’s been leading negotiations for a full deal to end the war with Iran.

“We laid a very good foundation for a successful final deal,” Vance said.

“The final deal is the house. We set the foundation, we haven’t built the house, but we’ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.”

Before he left Switzerland for the US, VP Vance also sought to soften President Trump’s bellicose rhetoric over the weekend, when he threatened to “blow the shit out of” Iran.

“What we told the Iranians yesterday is ‘When you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can’t expect the President of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,’ so when they say things that aren’t true, the president is going to respond to it, I’m going to respond to it, Americans are going to respond to it,” Vance said.

“When they make threats that aren’t rooted in reality, they have to accept that the president of the United States is actually going to set the record straight. That’s all that happened. So, yes, there was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining, but at the end of the day, the talks continued, and we made great progress.”

Technical talks are set to continue for the rest of the week.

A new “high-level committee” has been created to oversee negotiations during the mandated 60-day period.

Negotiators will be required to report to the committee and lead working groups to address the most difficult issues, especially Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

On Sunday, President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran will not stop enriching uranium,.

Iranian state TV quoted Pezehskian as saying Iran “has not and will never back down from its fundamental right to uranium enrichment.” He also said the US “has been forced to accept” the demand.

Another news outlet said Pezeshkian has promised Iran will not use enriched uranium to make weapons.

American and Iranian negotiators have also agreed to create a “deconfliction cell” for Lebanon to end the war there.

Ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, have threatened to scupper peace talks between the US and Iran.

The so-called “deconfliction cell” would “ensure the adherence of the termination of military operations in Lebanon” outlined under the memorandum of understanding signed between the US and Iran, said a joint statement released by Qatar and Pakistan, who are mediating the negotiations in Switzerland.

A separate channel has been opened to reduce tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has claimed to have closed several times as a result of perceived US and Israeli violations of the memorandum of understanding.

“A communication line between the parties has been formed for [60 days] to avoid incidents and miscommunication with the aim of safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz,” the parties said in the statement.