Talks between Iran and the US over Tehran's nuclear programme will be held in Oman on Friday, with Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff taking part, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.
The negotiations will adopt a format similar to previous rounds, ISNA added.
Oman mediated several rounds of Iran-US talks last year, which were held in its capital, Muscat, and at the Omani embassy in Rome.
The participation of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in the new talks is "being considered", ISNA said.
Mr Witkoff and Mr Araghchi were previously expected to resume nuclear negotiations in Turkey on Friday, with Mr Kushner also present.
However, Iran sought to change the venue and format of the talks, a regional diplomatic source told The National earlier on Wednesday.
“The Iranians want to change the agenda, participants, and the venue of the meeting,” the source said.
“So, basically, this is altogether a different meeting they are talking about now. They want to show that this is a new round of the previous nuclear talks in Oman,” he added.
The regional source, and sources in Cairo, said representatives from Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were expected to attend the talks in Istanbul.
Mr Araghchi held a flurry of phone calls on Tuesday night with officials in Turkey, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan, Iran's Foreign Ministry said.
In remarks reported earlier on Wednesday by Tasnim news agency, which is close to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said “consultations are under way to determine the location of the talks, which will be announced as soon as they are finalised”.
“The location and the timing of the meeting should not be a tool for media play,” he said, adding that Turkey, Oman, and “some other countries in the region” had expressed their readiness to host the talks.
Mr Trump on Tuesday confirmed US-Iran nuclear talks were set to continue, but declined to say where they were being held.
“They would like to negotiate, we are negotiating with them right now,” he told journalists in the Oval Office. “There's more than one meeting.”
In response to a question about where the meetings would be held, he answered: “I can't tell you that.”
