Top Iranian and US officials have held talks at the UN in New York. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.
The meeting was mediated by Qatar and involved Iran's foreign minister and US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff. It was the first since a June ceasefire unravelled. No breakthrough has been reported.
Witkoff said a round of discussions had been completed "that we hope will prove constructive and promising". Iran repeated its demand for the US to end its "acts of aggression".
The US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on 28 February. Iran responded by attacking Israel and US bases in the Gulf and Arab Gulf allies of the US, as well as blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
Some 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas used to pass through the strait before the war. Its closure has caused wild fluctuations of prices.
It has also increased pressure on Trump to find a way of ending the conflict, particularly as the US heads to Congressional elections in November.
In his address at the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump began by touting his accomplishments on the economy, immigration, the border and tackling violent crime. He spent much of his address justifying the war with Iran. This was a huge contrast with remarks earlier by UN Secretary General António Guterres, who warned global divisions were deepening.
Trump argued that the conflict had prevented Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and demonstrated the value of what he described as peace through strength.
"Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before?" he said. "Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic?"
Trump said he believed an Iran deal would come right after November's elections.
Trump later told reporters that American officials had had a "very productive" three-hour meeting with the Iranian delegation on the sidelines of the general assembly.
Iran state TV confirmed that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had met Witkoff.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, quoted by state broadcaster IRNA, later said negotiations took part through a Qatari mediator who communicated Tehran's conditions, including an end to the war on all fronts and to US "acts of aggression".
The BBC asked Witkoff how the meetings had gone as he was leaving the UN building and he responded with a thumbs up. Witkoff later confirmed on X that the talks had been held "through the mediators".
"They successfully completed a round of discussions that we hope will prove constructive and promising," Witkoff said.
Since the ceasefire collapsed, both sides have intermittently exchanged fire. Iran has attacked vessels it says have attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz without authorisation. The US has attacked Iranian sites in the strait, as well as Iranian tankers off the country's coast.
The US has also maintained a blockade of Iranian ports, causing a huge disruption to the Iranian economy. President Trump has also threatened sanctions against any country that continues trading with Iran.
But so far, there has been no indication of a change of course in Iran, which insists the US and Israel end their war, including against the Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah in Lebanon which Israel has been attacking.
Yemen's Houthis, also allied to Iran, have recently intensified attacks aimed at disrupting oil shipping from Saudi Arabia.