TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has confirmed that the next round of indirect talks with the United States will be held in Oman on Sunday.

Oman, which is mediating Iran’s talks with the US, is expected to announce the time to start the negotiations, he said on Friday during an interview with Shahrara newspaper on the talks on Tehran's nuclear program and removal of US sanctions on Iran, on the sidelines of his visit to the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.

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“Our Omani friends asked our opinion about setting the next meeting date on Sunday, and we announced our consent. Apparently, they have spoken to the other side, and up to this moment, the negotiations are scheduled to be held on Sunday," he said.

Although Iran's positions in the negotiations were principled and fixed, the US side was sending contradictory messages, the Iranian diplomat said, emphasizing that Iran would insist upon its "clear" positions.

During the interview, he said he would visit Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Saturday, adding he would hold consultations on regional issues and Iran-US indirect talks in Riyadh and take part in the Iran-Arab World Dialogue summit in Doha.

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The delegations of Iran and the US have held three rounds of indirect talks so far – the first and third in Muscat on April 12 and April 26, and the second in Rome on April 19. A fourth-round had been scheduled for May 3 in Rome but was postponed due to what Oman described as "logistical reasons”.