Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that his country will hold high-level indirect talks with the United States in Oman next Saturday, just hours after US President Donald Trump spoke of direct negotiations between the two sides.

"Iran and the United States will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect high-level talks," Araghchi said in a post on the X platform early Tuesday morning.

"It's as much an opportunity as it is a test. The ball is in America's court," he added.

This came after Trump announced, during his reception of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday evening, that the United States would hold direct talks with Iran, and that, as he put it, "the talks have already begun."

"Maybe an agreement will be reached, and that would be great. We'll have a very important meeting on Saturday, almost at the highest level," he continued.

Trump stressed that "everyone agrees that making a deal would be preferable to doing what is obvious, and what is obvious is something I frankly don't want to be involved in, and frankly Israel doesn't want to be involved in if it can be avoided."

Meanwhile, the New York Times quoted Iranian officials as saying that Iran is open to direct negotiations with Washington if indirect negotiations go well.

Iranian officials explained that Tehran "understands the talks somewhat differently than Trump described them."

Last month, Trump sent a letter to Tehran calling for talks on its nuclear program, while warning that it would be "bombed" if negotiations between the two countries failed.