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Iran confirms indirect talks with US in Oman
On Friday, American news website Axios reported that US and Iranian officials held indirect talks in Oman “on how to avoid escalating regional attacks”.
The official IRNA news agency said late Saturday that “the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations confirmed indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States in Oman”.
It quoted him as saying that “these negotiations were not the first and will not be the last”, without giving the time and place of the talks.
Two top Biden administration officials held indirect talks with Iranian officials in Oman on how to avoid escalating regional attacks, two sources with knowledge of the talks told Axios.
The talks – involving President Biden’s top Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, and Abram Paley the acting US envoy for Iran – were the first round of discussions between the US and Iran since January, when similar negotiations were held in Oman.
The discussions were held after Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel on April 13.
The barrage came in response to an Israeli air strike on April 1 that targeted Iran’s consulate in Syria’s capital Damascus and killed seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, two of them generals.