Oman's Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi mediated indirect talks Friday between the U.S. and Iran, according to footage released by the state-run Oman News Agency. According to Associated Press after the talks, Oman’s Foreign Ministry published a statement saying al-Busaidi met separately with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, then with U.S. Mideast special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. Footage later released by the state-run agency showed that U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the American military's Central Command, also attended the meeting — something unusual that hasn't happened in previous rounds. The two countries returned Friday to the sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, months after rounds of meetings turned to ash following Israel’s launch of a 12-day war against Iran back in June. The U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear sites during that war, likely destroying many of the centrifuges that spun uranium to near weapons-grade purity. Israel’s attacks devastated Iran’s air defences and targeted its ballistic missile arsenal as well. Neither the Americans nor the Iranians offered any readout of the meetings.