Technical talks between Iran and the United States that had been due to take place in Switzerland have been moved to Qatar, Iran-aligned Lebanese media reported on June 29.

The reported relocation suggests the diplomatic track may survive the weekend's military escalation rather than collapse outright, with the venue shifting to one of the mediators that brokered the war-ending memorandum even as Iran and the United States trade strikes and accusations of bad faith,  Al Mayadeen said.

The technical-level meeting had previously been set for Switzerland but was called off due to strikes in Iran, according to Iranian officials on June 28.

The New York Times, citing a senior US official, reported that the technical talks with Iran on how to implement the memorandum were still planned for the coming days.

The official, referring to the recent exchanges of fire between Iran and the United States, said no talks had been cancelled and that communications remained in place.

The Wall Street Journal had earlier reported that this week's talks in Switzerland had been cancelled.

The conflicting accounts followed two days of escalation in which the United States struck Iranian coastal sites in response to a drone attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired missiles and drones at US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation.

An Iranian official, Mehdi Fazaeli, said on June 28 that Iran had cancelled a round of technical talks over the clashes and over uncertainty about whether it would be able to access its frozen funds under the memorandum.

Qatar, alongside Pakistan, mediated the Islamabad memorandum signed on June 17, which set a 60-day window for a permanent deal and provided for the release of $12bn in frozen Iranian funds, the lifting of oil sanctions pending a final agreement, and a direct communication line between Tehran and Washington.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in Baghdad on June 28 for backroom talks between Tehran and regional countries. The visit, Araghchi's first since the war, shows Iran's push to lock in regional backing for its management of the strait and to shape a post-war security order that excludes outside powers, even as a fresh US-Iran military exchange tests the ceasefire.

Araghchi said that under the memorandum, the Strait of Hormuz would return to its pre-war conditions within 30 days under Iran's management, and that no country or body had any responsibility in the matter. Any attempt to adopt new arrangements or to interfere would only complicate the situation and delay the reopening, he said, urging all parties not to allow the memorandum to be derailed.

He said the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, should end under the memorandum, and that it was the responsibility of the United States to halt Israeli attacks on Lebanon, with a withdrawal from occupied points required.

Hussein said the closure of the Strait of Hormuz had been one of the causes of Iraq's oil export problems and had a deep effect on the country. He said Iraq did not support a widening of the war and had not backed the aggression against Iran, and had proposed a security framework for the region.