U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to meet with mediators in Doha to discuss the Iran deal, but there are no planned high-level talks with Iranian officials, according to Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
During a media briefing Tuesday, Majed Al-Ansari said talks between the U.S. officials and Qatari mediators will focus on regional issues, including ongoing negotiations with Iran, but also the conflict in Lebanon.
Witkoff and Kushner are also set to meet with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, a senior admin official told TIME.
There have been conflicting reports over the past 24 hours regarding the status of U.S.-Iran talks, after tit-for-tat strikes throughout the weekend threatened to derail the fragile interim peace agreement.
Trump on Monday declared that Iran had “requested” a meeting and said it would be taking place in Doha the next day, but Iranian officials swiftly rejected the idea that any direct talks had been arranged.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said Tuesday that an Iranian official will be in Doha, but only to engage in talks with Qatari mediators regarding the interim peace agreement and details surrounding the potential release of frozen Iranian assets.
"No meeting at any level with the American side has been scheduled for the coming days," he said.
Trump and Iranian officials signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 17, agreeing to an extended 60-day cease-fire to allow time for further negotiations to take place. That deadline is set to expire around mid-August, yet there appears to have been little progress on technical talks.
A flare-up of violence in and around the Strait of Hormuz has cast doubt over efforts to secure a full reopening of the vital waterway.
Over the weekend, the U.S. and Iran traded strikes after a Singaporean-flagged cargo ship in
