Iran and US begin second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme

The talks in Rome over Easter weekend again hinge on US billionaire Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, and Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.

That talks are even happening represents a historic moment, given the decades of enmity between the two countries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the US Embassy hostage crisis.

The US president, in his first term, unilaterally withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in 2018, setting off years of attacks and negotiations that failed to restore the accord that dr...
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