SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran’s foreign ministry said Sunday that talks with the United States slated for next weekend would remain ‘indirect’ with Omani mediation, and be focused solely on the nuclear issue and lifting of sanctions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held a first round of talks on Saturday in Muscat, marking the highest-level Iran-US nuclear negotiations since the collapse of a 2015 accord.

They agreed to meet again in seven days.

‘Negotiations will continue to be indirect. Oman will remain the mediator, but we are discussing the location of future negotiations,’ foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in an interview with state TV.

He said the talks would only focus on ‘the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions’, and that Iran ‘will not have any talks with the American side on any other issue’.

Analysts had said the US would push to include on the agenda discussions over Iran’s ballistic missile programme, along with Tehran’s support for the ‘axis of resistance’ — a network of militant groups opposed to Israel.

Tehran has, however, maintained it will talk only about its nuclear programme…”