Years of Distrust Hang Over US and Iran as Their Negotiators Head to Oman
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Officials from the US and Iran are set to meet Saturday in Oman for the highest-level talks on the Islamic Republic’s advancing nuclear program since 2022, a sign of Tehran’s eagerness for sanctions relief and to avoid the crippling military attack that President Donald Trump has threatened.
Each side’s distrust of the other runs deep, even complicating the path to having their emissaries sit down together. Trump has insisted the talks will be “direct,” while Iranian officials just as assertively maintain they’ll be “indirect.”