Biden administration quietly revives talks with Iran: report

The White House has restarted talks with Iran in an effort to win the release of US detainees and limit Tehran’s nuclear program.

Biden administration officials have traveled to Oman for indirect discussions with their Iranian counterparts at least three times since December, when senior US and Iranian diplomats made contact in New York, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

A month earlier, President Biden told a group of Iranian American protesters in California that the 2015 nuclear deal among the US, Iran and five other world powers was “dead, but we are not going to announce it.“

Weeks after that, Robert Malley, the State Department’s special envoy for Iran, conferred with Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations, according to the Journal.