Iranian minister to have ‘indirect talks’ with US envoy over nuclear programme

President Donald Trump, left, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Ben Curtis/AP and Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s foreign minister has said he will meet US envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman for the first negotiations under the Trump administration seeking to halt Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme as tensions remain high in the Middle East.

Speaking to Iranian state television from Algeria, Abbas Araghchi maintained the talks would be indirect, likely with Omani mediators shuttling between the two parties.