Iran has confirmed that it held indirect talks with the United States in Oman despite the two countries having no diplomatic relations, state media reported.
Washington and Tehran have long been at odds with tensions on Iran's nuclear programme and heightened by the Gaza war between their respective allies Israel and Hamas.
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.
The discussions were held after Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel on April 13-14.
