Media: Iran may reconsider attacking Israel in exchange for Gaza truce

In a bid to reduce military escalation in the Middle East and prevent the situation from spiralling out of control, Tehran has sent a message to Washington.

The news came from the Lebanese newspaper Al Ahbar, citing diplomatic sources in Muscat, where talks took place on  April 7 between Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir Abdollahian and his Omani counterpart Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud al-Busaidi, TASS reports.

According to their reports, Tehran's message expressed its readiness "not to retaliate against Israel for the killing of seven Iranian military advisers in Damascus in exchange for a ceasefire in Gaza and the abandonment of the Rafah operation".

Tehran concluded that Israel, which is in a stalemate following its failure in Gaza, is "provoking new crises and trying to drag Iran and America into a direct confrontation", Al Ahbar writes.

The newspaper notes that the American side has not yet responded to the Iranian proposal.

Since the situation in the region escalated in October, the Sultanate of Oman has played an important mediating role between Tehran and Washington. According to Al Ahbar, Iranian and US representatives met in Muscat in January, with US diplomats expecting Tehran to put pressure on the Palestinian Hamas movement to agree to the ceasefire terms proposed by Washington at the Cairo talks.