Two top White House officials held indirect discussions with Iranian officials in Oman this week in an effort to tamp down regional attacks, according to a report.

The talks — the first since January, when similar conversations were held in the Persian Gulf state over heightened conflicts in the Red Sea —  included Brett McGurk, President Biden’s Middle East adviser, and Abram Paley, the acting US envoy for Iran, two sources told Axios.

The discussions focused on clarifying the potential fallout from Iran and its proxies’ actions in the Middle East, as well as the United States’ concerns over Tehran’s nuclear program, the sources said. 

The talks came a little over a month after Iran’s first-ever direct missile attack on Israel, when Tehran launched 350 missiles and drones at the Jewish state in retaliation for assassinating a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard general in Damascus.

In recent weeks, Tehran has threatened that it could revise its nuclear doctrine and develop nuclear weapons if its existence is threatened by Israel. 

It is unclear who represented the Iranians in the Oman talks, Axios reported. 

State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told the outlet that the Biden administration has ways to communicate with Iran when necessary, but declined to comment on the talks in Oman.

“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,” he said.