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

Oil prices settled lower on Wednesday, after Oman's foreign minister said a fresh round of nuclear talks between Iran and the U.S. would take place later this week. Prices had gained earlier in the session on a CNN report on Tuesday that U.

At an international conference in Tehran, top Iranian officials said they were eager to make a deal with Trump but that they wouldn’t buckle under pressure.