Iran and the United States have agreed to halt attacks and to meet again on Tuesday in Doha to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report on Sunday.

Axios, citing US officials and a source with knowledge of the details, reported that Tuesday’s talks were originally planned to take place in Switzerland, but the flareup caused them to be moved to Qatar’s capital and the topic was changed to the Hormuz standoff, as disputes and gaps remain despite the memorandum of understanding reached earlier this month.

“We decided to stop all the kinetic activity,” one of the US officials was quoted as saying.

Confirming that the sides agreed to stop attacks and resume negotiations, a US official told Reuters that “technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU,” not just Hormuz.

“Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely,” the official said.

The Axios report came shortly after an Iranian official said Tehran did not take part in technical talks slated for Sunday due to recent attacks on the country and unfulfilled conditions of the MOU, which was meant to halt the fighting and reopen the strait while negotiations proceeded on issues such as Iran’s nuclear program.

“For example, one of the reasons is checking if we have access to the unfrozen funds, if there is no access then this condition has not been fulfilled,” Mehdi Fazaeili, a member of the Office of Preservation and Publication of the Works of Iran’s Supreme Leader, told state television.

Despite a ceasefire that took effect in April and the recently signed MOU, sporadic violence has continued in the Gulf region, the spark of which is often Iranian attacks on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Tehran was angered by Oman’s announcement last week of an alternative route through........

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