US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he expects talks with Iran to resume in the coming week, despite his rejection of a truce proposal put forward by Iran.
Iranian officials brought with them to the UN General Assembly in New York a plan for a seven-day truce followed by the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz shipping channel.
Trump dismissed the plan and has mused on resuming full-scale air strikes on Iranian targets, but he told the news platform Axios that he expects negotiations to resume.
"They overplayed their hand," Trump said in the interview published Monday.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, Axios reported that indirect talks between the US and Iran could take place as early as Tuesday.
On Monday, Iran was still standing by its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Hormuz is a chokepoint for the world's energy supplies and is now central to the conflict between the US and Iran, which was started nearly seven months ago when the US and Israel launched a wave of strikes against Iran.
Iran's plan called for a cessation of all hostilities in the Middle East, including in Lebanon, according to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and a return to the conditions in an earlier ceasefire deal that fell apart.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards meanwhile said that they seized an American submersible drone on Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz.
Araghchi said at the UN that Iran has conveyed to the United States, through Qatar, a concrete seven-day plan, adding: "The choice now rests with the United States."