Iran and the United States have scheduled a second round of negotiations for this weekend in Rome over Tehran’s nuclear program. Both countries described Saturday’s indirect talks in Oman’s capital of Muscat as positive and constructive.

The talks are considered an important first step in establishing whether a new deal is attainable. 

Joining the discussion: 

• John Ghazvinian is a lecturer in Modern Middle East Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Barbara Slavin is a Distinguished Fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Program at the Stimson Center.
• Edmund Ghareeb is an academic and Middle East expert.
• Ali Akbar Dareini is a researcher and writer at the Strategic Studies of Public Policy Journal in Tehran and author of “Legitimate Deterrence: A Thrilling Story of Iran’s Nuclear Program.”