According to the Wall Street Journal, while today’s nuclear talks in Muscat were carried out from two separate rooms while the Foreign Minister of Oman, Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, acted as an intermediary between the delegations; a brief face-to-face discussion did occur at the end between White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, which is said to have lasted a few minutes and was conducted once again in the presence of Oman’s Foreign Minister. This would be the highest-level meeting between a U.S. and Iranian official since September 2017. During the talks, Iran presented Omani officials with their “red lines” stating that denuclearization was not on the table, but claiming that they were open to discussing a return to levels of uranium enrichment agreed upon under the 2015 nuclear deal, in exchange for sanctions relief from the United States.