History of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks: A timeline of strained ties, diplomacy

History of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks: A timeline of strained ties, diplomacy

Iran and the United States will hold talks in the sultanate of Oman on Saturday (April 12, 2025) in an attempt to jump-start negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks a Magnet for Spies

If history and tradition hold, U.S. and Iranian spies will be hard at work trying to crack the secrets of the other side’s diplomatic strategies during the nuclear talks set to open Saturday in Oman.  Each side’s espionage operations will range from efforts to bug meeting places and hotel rooms, to eavesdropping on diplomats’ phones, to piercing coded messages between delegates and their ministries back home, to bribing restaurant waiters to rep…