WASHINGTON—The United States will hold talks with Iran on Feb. 6 in Oman, a White House official told The Epoch Times.

The decision came after a breakdown in planning discussions on Wednesday due to rising tensions regarding the agenda.

The White House official said the meeting was rescheduled after several Arab and Muslim leaders urged the Trump administration on Wednesday afternoon not to withdraw from the talks. The meeting was originally scheduled to take place in Istanbul.

The official added that the United States agreed to the meeting out of respect for its Arab allies but remains skeptical about its prospects for success.

In an interview with NBC News on Feb. 4, Trump said Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “should be very worried.”

“We want peace in the Middle East,” Trump said, adding that if the United States hadn’t taken out nuclear facilities in Iran last year, there would be no peace in the region.

“The Arab countries could’ve never done that. They were very, very afraid of Iran,” the president said.

In June, the U.S. military and Israel launched air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities during a 12-day aerial war. Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at Israeli and U.S. assets in the region.

“Those beautiful B-2 bombers went in, and they hit their target ... and obliterated it,” Trump said, referring to Iran’s nuclear program. The president went on to say that Iran at the time of the strikes would have produced a nuclear weapon within one month if the United States hadn’t intervened.

The regime in Iran was considering launching a new facility in another part of the country, Trump said, but the United States had found out about their plans.

He then warned Iran that if the regime attempts to restart its nuclear program, he would send bombers “right back.”

In recent days, Trump ordered a military buildup in the Middle East following protests in Iran that escalated into violent clashes with Iranian security forces. Thousands of protesters are reported dead or missing as a result of the ongoing clampdown.

Khamenei earlier stated that Iran “will strike a strong blow against anyone who attacks and harasses” its territory, according to multiple state media outlets, after Trump posted on Truth Social that “a massive armada” was being deployed to the region.

The president in recent weeks has repeatedly urged Iran’s Islamist regime to make a deal to constrain its nuclear program.

“As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL!” Trump wrote in a Jan. 28 post on Truth Social. “They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again.”

Guy Birchall and Jack Phillips contributed to this report.