Witkoff and Kushner to attend Iran meeting as U.S. pushes for deal

U.S. President envoy Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Kushner are set to attend a meeting on Iran, while technical negotiations are due to run alongside high-level talks, White House press secretary Leavitt said. She said Iran would be better off reaching a good agreement with the United States and that Trump wants the peace process to proceed smoothly while retaining the option of military force if necessary. On June 30 local time, Iran's chief negotiator and parliament speaker Ghalibaf said Tehran is determined to uphold the memorandum of understanding, but has prepared for war if the United States refuses to implement the consensus. He described negotiations with Washington as dealing with an untrustworthy enemy rather than a friend, and rejected claims that Iran's unfrozen funds could only be used to buy U.S. agricultural products, saying that was completely inaccurate and that Iran has the right to use the released funds at its own discretion under the memorandum.