Switzerland said diplomats from several countries had continued efforts at Bürgenstock to maintain dialogue on implementing the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, but said confidentiality prevented it from identifying those present or discussing the talks.
Trump said on Saturday Iran had "got away with 'murder' for 47 years" until he took office and had since been "completely defeated militarily," while criticizing Barack Obama and Joe Biden as weak leaders.
US and Iranian envoys are moving toward Switzerland after a planned Friday meeting was canceled, raising expectations of possible Iran-US talks even as no new date has been announced.
Lebanon remains a central test for the memorandum, with Iran and Hezbollah saying talks cannot advance without a broader ceasefire and a halt to Israeli attacks.
The Strait of Hormuz is reopening under Iranian controls, with Iran saying vessels still require seeking permits as shipping monitors lower their threat assessment for the waterway.
Trump and Vance are defending the deal at home, saying relief can be adjusted based on Tehran’s conduct, while Democrats and Republican hawks remain divided.
US President Donald Trump said Iran had been "defeated militarily, with no Navy or Air Force," in a Truth Social post on Saturday.
"Funny how the Dumocrats like to say that Iran is in a stronger position today than they were three months ago," Trump wrote.
"That’s why I call them the Dumocrats!!!" he added.
Switzerland said on Saturday it was providing a "discreet, reliable setting" at Bürgenstock to facilitate talks on implementing a memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran.
Diplomats from several countries were continuing efforts to maintain dialogue, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said, adding that it could provide no further information about those present or the discussions because of confidentiality.
US President Donald Trump said Iran had "got away with 'murder' for 47 years" until he took office, in a Truth Social post on Saturday.
"Then it all changed," Trump wrote, saying Iran had been "completely defeated militarily" in the war.
Trump said former President Barack Obama had given Iran "billions in cash" and had failed to use the US military to curb what he called "the world's number one sponsor of terror."
He said Iranian leaders had "ZERO respect" for Obama and former President Joe Biden, whom he called "a weak and ineffective leader."
"AMERICA IS BACK!!!" Trump wrote.
Iranian authorities arrested 480 people in the northwest of the country over alleged links to Israel and the US following their attacks on Iran, the province's chief justice Nasser Atabati said.
Atabati said those detained were accused of security offenses and cooperation with networks linked to Israel and the US. Authorities did not release details of the detainees' identities, evidence, legal proceedings or access to independent lawyers.
Iran is prepared for either a continuation of war or its end, Interior Ministry spokesperson Ali Zeinivand said on Saturday.
If war continued, Iran would inflict another "historic defeat" on its enemy, Zeinivand told a news conference.
He said Iran was also ready to attract investment and speed development if conditions allowed, adding that the country had found ways to move forward despite sanctions.
A plane carrying Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi landed in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, on Saturday morning for meetings with officials, according to Iranian state media.
A member of Iran’s parliament’s presiding board described the memorandum with Washington as a US defeat and said Tehran’s hand remains “on the trigger” even in peacetime.
Farshad Ebrahimpour told the semi-official ISNA news agency on Saturday that Iran had “never tied its security to political agreements.”
He said the memorandum between Tehran and Washington showed what he called the failure of the United States.
Ebrahimpour’s remarks add to a growing line of warnings from Iranian officials and hardline voices who have framed the memorandum not as a step away from confrontation, but as a pause.
The US-Iran memorandum could restore a major source of revenue for Tehran by allowing it to resume oil and fuel sales, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The report said Iran could earn more than $60 billion a year from oil sales based on its prewar production levels and current prices.
Several oil-laden Iranian tankers have already left port and crossed the US naval blockade line this week, the report said, describing the movement as an early sign of anticipated exports.
A state-linked religious singer in Shahr-e Rey threatened President Masoud Pezeshkian with death if the conditions set by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei over the US memorandum are not fulfilled.
The threat came a day after Khamenei said he had held a different view on the agreement with Washington but authorized its implementation after Pezeshkian accepted responsibility for it.
“Mr. President, if the Leader’s conditions are not fulfilled, then it will be us, the blade and your throat,” the religious singer said.
In Iran, such performers, known as maddahs, are religious singers and reciters who lead mourning chants in Shiite ceremonies, but some have also become influential political voices aligned with hardline and security-linked networks.
Kamyar Behrang, a member of Iran International’s editorial team, said these figures are “not merely elegy reciters,” but part of the Islamic Republic’s security and repression apparatus, with links to institutions such as the Revolutionary Guards.
Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and a former IRGC commander, warned that any final text for a US-Iran agreement must be technically and legally precise, saying Tehran should guard against wording that Washington could later interpret narrowly.
Rezaei said the language on sanctions relief must be carefully drafted and that any provision on lifting the blockade should be stated explicitly.
He pointed to a possible loophole in one of the 14 points of the memorandum, saying Iran had demanded that US forces withdraw from areas around Iran within 30 days of a final agreement.
“But they may say that ‘around you’ means the 12 nautical miles of your coastal waters,” Rezaei said, adding that such an interpretation would be unacceptable to Tehran.
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