Will the U.S. and Iran Cooperate on Science?

Since Iran and six world powers struck a deal on Tehran's nuclear program more than a year ago, a number of interactions between the Islamic Republic and the United States have made headlines. They include prisoner exchanges, allegations that Washington paid a “ransom” to Tehran, expressions of mutual suspicion by politicians, and tense encounters between Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and the US Navy in the Persian Gulf. What has received less attention is the prospect of scientific and technological exchange between Tehran and Washington.