A senior Iranian security official said Saturday that a structure for talks with the United States is being set up

A senior Iranian security official said Saturday that a structure for talks with the United States is being set up.

"The formation of a structure for negotiations is progressing," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani wrote on social media platform X, without elaborating.

Larijani's remarks followed his meeting on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, which focused on economic cooperation and significant regional and international issues.

The remarks also came amid rising tensions between Iran and the United States, with the latter bolstering its military presence in the Middle East although publicly holding out the possibility of diplomacy.

Tehran already signaled on Friday a conditional willingness to return to the negotiating table to ease the escalating confrontation.