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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi sat down with senior American officials in Geneva on Monday for the first direct nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington in more than a decade, opening talks that both sides described publicly with cautious optimism but that are constrained by fundamental disagreements over Iran’s right to enrich uranium and the scope of any eventual agreement.

The Geneva session marked the first face-to-face contact between U.S. and Iranian officials since the 2015 signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, from which President Donald Trump withdrew during his first term in 2018. All subsequent diplomatic contacts, …