The threat of U.S. military intervention helped bring Iran back to the negotiating table. Its hobbled economy is likely to keep it there. Trump’s administration resumed its campaign of “maximum pressure” to force Iran to rein in its nuclear program and prevent it from developing a bomb. Officials from the U.S. and Iran convened in the Omani capital on Saturday for their highest-level talks in years, pledging to keep a conversation going. Washington wants a new deal to curb Tehran’s uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting sanctions. 

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