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Iranian and US officials are set to meet for technical nuclear talks again this week after what both sides described as a successful round of negotiations in Rome on Saturday.
The countries agreed to start drawing up a framework for a potential deal, but Tehran’s obfuscation over its nuclear capabilities could dent hopes for a quick agreement.
Iran hasn’t provided an inventory of its nuclear material and infrastructure, and striking a deal without those details would “be extremely risky,” The Wall Street Journal wrote.
Tehran’s motivation for engaging with the US is not President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign, but a desire to “preserve the essential features of its expanding nuclear infrastructure” — its new generation of uranium-enriching centrifuges — two security analysts argued in Politico.