The next round of negotiations between Iran and the United States is likely to take place in Pakistan on July 11, Pakistani daily The Nation reported on July 5.

The agenda for the meeting is expected to cover US sanctions on Iran, the release of Tehran's frozen assets abroad and developments related to the Iranian nuclear programme, according to Arabic-language media sources cited in the report.

The next round of talks comes as Tehran authorities continue to throttle dissenting voices in recent weeks despite the ongoing pushes by some sections of the Paydari front to kybosh negotiations following the war between Iran and the US and Israel. 

Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya separately claimed that the final decision on the composition of the Iranian delegation, and on who will lead it, will be taken only after the burial of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli air strike on Tehran on February 28.

The official line-up of the negotiating team is to be announced once the funeral processions conclude, but is expected to be led by de-facto leader Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has led direct talks with US officials, including Vice President J.D. Vance.

Khamenei's long-delayed funeral ceremonies began in Tehran on July 4 and are due to run for several days, with processions through Qom and the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala before burial at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad on July 9. Talks have been paused for the duration.

The two sides last met in Switzerland, where the Bürgenstock resort on Lake Lucerne hosted bilateral, trilateral, and quadrilateral sessions on June 21, involving the Iranian and US delegations alongside the mediators Pakistan and Qatar.

The meetings, which followed the signing of the Islamabad memorandum of understanding on June 18, ran for some 20 hours and ended with an agreement to proceed to technical-level discussions.

Those technical talks were held in Switzerland on June 22, chaired on the Iranian side by Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi. He said afterwards that the parties had agreed arrangements for future rounds and had reached the necessary understandings on executive mechanisms for implementing the memorandum and the statement issued at the close of the high-level summit.

Iran and the US reached the 14-point memorandum after roughly two months of contacts, conducted first through Pakistan and later through Qatar. The first point of the document concerns ending the war, including in Lebanon.