Tehran: The acting foreign minister of Iran has said that Tehran is still holding indirect nuclear talks with the United States via Oman.
Iran’s Etemad newspaper on Thursday quoted Ali Bagheri Kani as saying: Indirect talks are being conducted through Oman but the negotiation process is confidential and its details cannot be recounted.
A White House spokesperson on Monday said the United States was not ready to resume nuclear talks with Iran under the newly elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
Efforts were being made to have solid grounds for talks for the new Iranian government that will take office in the coming weeks.
Pezeshkian, who won Iran’s run-off presidential vote last week, has said he will promote a pragmatic foreign policy and reduce tensions with the six powers that have been involved in nuclear talks to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement.
It is to be noted that foreign policy in Iran is decided by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who warned last month that “one who thinks that nothing can be done without the favour of America will not manage the country well.”
Pezeshkian has become president at a time when tension is growing in the Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Earlier, Pezeshkian in a letter to Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, reiterated Tehran’s continued support for Palestinians against the occupation of Israel.
