US President Donald Trump said Monday that his country’s next meeting with Iran would take place in Qatar on Tuesday, amid conflicting reports as to whether American and Iranian negotiators would meet in the coming days to continue talks toward a final accord.

“Iran has requested a meeting. It will take place tomorrow in Doha!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Elaborating on the post, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that Trump’s top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would attend the Doha meetings, which she described as “high-level.”

“On the sidelines of those high-level talks, there will be the technical talks,” she said.

Pakistan, a key mediator, also said talks would resume Tuesday, but Iranian officials said earlier Monday that no such meeting was scheduled.

“Although consultations with Qatar, including on following up on the implementation of the other side’s commitments, are continuing as usual, reports by some media about technical talks by the working groups being held in Doha are not confirmed,” senior negotiator Kazem Gharibabadi said, in comments published by the official IRNA news agency.

Technical talks involve lower-level diplomats working on the specifics of any deal that would draw top leaders from Iran and the US back to the table.

Iran meets with Oman on Hormuz as traffic slows

Alongside the talks with the US, Gharibabadi said Monday that Iranian representatives had met with Oman, in what he called the first meeting of a joint committee on the Strait of Hormuz.

Gharibabadi said the two countries “exchanged views” on Gulf coastal states’ sovereign rights as well as on the strait’s........

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