Top Iran security official seen in Oman days after indirect nuclear talks with US

A apical Iranian information authoritative was spotted successful Oman conscionable days aft Tehran and the U.S. held indirect atomic talks successful the Mideast sultanate.

Ali Larijani, a erstwhile Iranian parliament talker who present serves arsenic the caput to the country’s Supreme National Security Council, was apt successful the state to sermon what comes adjacent aft the archetypal circular of talks, The Associated Press reported. The outlet noted that Larijani's squad shared photos of him with Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, the main intermediary successful the U.S.-Iran talks.

Iranian media reportedly said Larijani would present an important message, but aboriginal authorities tv said al-Busaidi "handed implicit a letter" to the Iranian authoritative without elaborating connected the letter's origins, according to the AP.

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In this photograph released by Iran's Supreme National Security Council office, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani, right, listens to Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi during their gathering successful Muscat, Oman, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (Erfan Kouchari/Iran's Supreme National Security Council Office via AP)

While successful Oman, Larijani besides met with Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq for astir 3 hours, according to the AP, which cited the Iranian state-run IRNA quality agency. Additionally, the outlet said that Larijani was acceptable to question to Qatar, which houses the U.S. subject installation that bombed Iran's atomic sites successful 2025.

Larijani accused Israel of playing a "destructive role" successful the talks conscionable earlier Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expected sojourn to Washington, D.C.

"Netanyahu is present connected his mode to the United States. Americans indispensable deliberation wisely and not let him, done posturing, to connote earlier his formation that 'I privation to spell and thatch Americans the model of the atomic negotiations.' They indispensable stay alert to the destructive relation of the Zionists," Larijani wrote connected X.

Israel and Iran engaged successful a 12-day warfare successful the summertime of 2025 which culminated successful the U.S. bombing Tehran's atomic facilities. Iran, which has been grappling with wide anti-government protests, has blamed Israel and the U.S. for assorted grievances.

Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Hamad Al Busaidi meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi up of U.S.-Iran talks successful Muscat, Oman, connected Feb. 6, 2026. (Oman Foreign Ministry/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Officials from some the U.S. and Iran person said that the archetypal circular of talks went good and suggested that they would continue.

"The Muscat meeting, which was not a agelong one, it was a half-day meeting. For us, it was a mode to measurement the seriousness of the different side, and to find retired however we could proceed the process. Therefore, we mostly addressed the generalities," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said astatine a quality league Tuesday successful Tehran, according to the AP.

"Our principles are clear. Our request is to unafraid the interests of the Iranian federation based connected planetary norms and the Non-Proliferation Treaty and peaceful usage of atomic energy," Baghaei said, according to the AP. "So arsenic for the details, we should hold for the adjacent steps and spot however this diplomatic process volition continue."

Omani overseas curate Sayyid Badr Hamad Al Busaidi, President Donald Trump's peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner conscionable up of the U.S.-Iran talks, successful Muscat, the superior of Oman, connected Feb. 6, 2026.  (Oman Foreign Ministry/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Iranian overseas curate Abbas Araghchi said that indirect atomic talks with the U.S. successful Oman were "a bully start" and that determination was a "consensus" that the negotiations would continue.

"After a agelong play without dialogue, our viewpoints were conveyed, and our concerns were expressed. Our interests, the rights of the Iranian people, and each matters that needed to beryllium stated were presented successful a precise affirmative atmosphere, and the different side’s views were besides heard," Araghchi said.

"It was a bully start, but its continuation depends connected consultations successful our respective capitals and deciding connected however to proceed," helium added.

President Donald Trump besides expressed optimism astir the indirect talks, telling reporters aboard Air Force One connected Friday that "Iran looks similar it wants to marque a woody precise badly. We'll person to spot what that woody is."

When helium was pressed connected however agelong the U.S. would beryllium consenting to hold to marque a woody with Iran, the president indicated immoderate flexibility, saying helium believes the 2 nations tin scope an agreement.

"It tin beryllium reached. Well, we person to get successful position. We person plentifulness of time. If you retrieve Venezuela, we waited astir for a while, and we're successful nary rush. We person precise bully [talks] with Iran," Trump said.

President Donald Trump said indirect atomic talks with Iran were "very good" and that Tehran "wants to marque a woody precise badly." (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

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"They cognize the consequences if they don't marque a deal. The consequences are precise steep. So, we'll spot what happens. But they had a precise bully gathering with a precise precocious typical of Iran," the president added.

American and Iranian representatives held abstracted meetings with Omani officials connected Friday amid flaring tensions betwixt Washington and Tehran. Oman's Foreign Ministry said the meetings were "focused connected preparing the due conditions for resuming diplomatic and method negotiations."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.