Tehran rejected a request from US Vice President JD Vance for direct negotiations, according to Mehdi Mohammadi, an adviser to parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran International reports.
Mohammadi said the request was turned down because Washington has not yet delivered its final response to Iran's proposal.
His account comes from Ghalibaf's office, not from Mohsen Rezaei, the Supreme National Security Council secretary. It is a further Iranian rejection of the meeting reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Iran International also reports that Rezaei was asked directly about meeting Vance in an interview with Al Mayadeen on Tuesday 10 November. He replied: "Absolutely not."
Mohammadi's comments do not deny that a request was made. That fits the WSJ's report that Vance wrote to Rezaei in October asking to meet. The paper said no date had been set and that Doha was under consideration. US officials described the discussions as preliminary.