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"Indirect talks are being conducted through Oman but the
negotiation process is confidential and its details cannot be
recounted," Bagheri Kani was quoted as saying.
Efforts were being made to leave "suitable grounds" for
negotiations for the new Iranian government that will take
office in the next few weeks.
Pezeshkian, a low-profile moderate who won Iran's run-off
presidential vote last week, has said he will promote a
pragmatic foreign policy and ease tensions with the six powers
that have been involved in now-stalled nuclear talks to revive a
2015 nuclear pact.
However, foreign policy in Iran is ultimately decided by the
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who warned last month prior to
elections that "one who thinks that nothing can be done without
the favour of America will not manage the country well."
Pezeshkian is taking office at a time of growing Middle East
tensions over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and over cross-border
fire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah,
which have exacerbated disputes between Tehran and Washington.
In a letter to Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian
Islamist militant group Hamas, Pezeshkian reiterated on
Wednesday Tehran's continued support for Palestinians against
"the occupation of the Zionist regime (Israel)."
Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah and Sunni Muslim Hamas are part of a
group of Iranian-backed factions in the region known as the Axis
of Resistance.
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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