Newshour: Direct US-Iran talks could resume as early as this week, research fellow says

Direct peace talks between Iran and the United States could resume as soon as this week, a research fellow at the University of Tehran has told the BBC World Service. Mohammad Eslami was speaking to Newshour's Owen Bennett-Jones after a US blockade of the Iranian coastline came into force. Eslami said the US blockade, which comes in the wake of failed peace talks in Pakistan over the weekend, was "a kind of pressure on the Iranian leadership while they are discussing back channels with the