A round of U.S-Iran talks has been announced to take place in Italy as tensions loom over negotiations for a new nuclear agreement. Newsweek has contacted the U.S. State Department and the Iranian Foreign Ministry for comment.

Iran and the U.S. have see-sawed between enmity and grudging diplomacy in the years since, with relations peaking when Tehran made the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. But Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018, sparking tensions in the Mideast that persist today.

Iran and the United States will hold a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. The negotiations represent a milestone in the fraught relations