France, Feb. 12 -- On Tuesday, Iran's top security official Ali Larijani met Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in Muscat, where the two men "discussed the latest developments in the Iranian-American negotiations" and "ways to reach a balanced and just agreement between the two sides," according toOman's state news agency.

The talks followed the first US-Iran dialogue since last year's 12‑day Iran-Israel war, underscoring that diplomacy is back on track in the Gulf.

But French think tankFrance2050alleges in its reportThe Islamic Republic of Iran's Infiltration in France, published late last year, that while Iran has spent years influencing US and European policy makers, it has also been building a hidden apparatus of influence in Fra...