Iran and the United States will hold talks Friday in Rome, their fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. The talks follow previously negotiations in both Rome and in Muscat,

Iran-US nuclear talks enter fifth round amid sharp disagreements over uranium enrichment, sanctions, and growing regional tensions in Rome negotiations.

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.