Depending on who you ask, a nuclear agreement between Iran and the United states is either a non-starter or almost a done deal.

Iran and the United States are set to resume nuclear talks in Rome amid rising tensions, hard-line demands, and Israeli threats of military action. With uranium enrichment at the core of the standoff,

Iran’s top diplomat has warned that his country would take “special measures” to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of

Iran warned it would hold the United States responsible for any Israeli attack on its atomic facilities, on the eve of a new round of nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.

Iranian media say the fifth round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has begun in Rome