The American website Axios revealed that two senior officials in the Biden administration held indirect talks with Iranian officials in Amman this week about how to avoid escalating regional attacks, two sources familiar with the talks told the website.

The talks, which apparently according to the site, included US President Joe Biden's senior advisor for Middle East affairs, Brett McGurk, and Abram Paley, the acting US envoy to Iran, were the first round of discussions between the United States and Iran since last January, when negotiations were held. Similar in Oman.

The talks took place just over a month after Iran's unprecedented missile attack on Israel on April 13 in retaliation for Israel's assassination of 8 senior officers at the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1.

Iran launched 350 ballistic missiles and drones towards Israel in response to Israel's assassination of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior Iranian Quds Force general responsible for Iranian military operations in Lebanon and Syria.

The attack, the first of its kind, put the Middle East on the brink of a regional war.

According to the United States' claim, the United States and its allies, including Jordan, Britain, France, and Jordan, were able to shoot down most of the drones and missiles, but a number of those missiles reached their targets and destroyed at least one Israeli air base.

Several days after the attack, Israel responded with a strike targeting the S-300 air defense system at an Iranian air base, without causing any significant damage.

Axios claims that “one of the Biden administration’s main goals since October 7 has been to prevent the conflict in Gaza from leading to a regional war.”

The United States believes that Iran has great influence in the region through its allies, the so-called Axis of Resistance.

These forces include Hezbollah in Lebanon, pro-Iranian militias in Syria and Iraq that have launched attacks against American forces, and the Houthis in Yemen who are still attacking ships in the Red Sea.

The website says: “Sources said that McGurk and Bali arrived in Oman on Tuesday and met with Omani mediators.”

It is unclear who represents Iran in the talks.

The sources told the website, "The talks focused on clarifying the consequences of the actions of Iran and its agents in the region and discussing American concerns about the status of the Iranian nuclear program."

In recent weeks, several Iranian officials have hinted at the possibility of Iran moving toward producing nuclear weapons.

It is noteworthy that Vedant Patel, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a press conference at the US State Department, on Monday, that the Biden administration has ways to communicate with Iran when necessary.

He added: "The Biden administration continues to assess that Iran is not currently undertaking the key activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device."

Patel added that the United States does not believe Iran's Supreme Leader has made a decision "to resume the weapons program that we are ruling Iran to suspend or discontinue at the end of 2003."