Iran is not currently holding talks with the United States and is now in discussions with Oman over a temporary safe route through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.Baghaei added that reaching an agreement with Oman is not sufficient to reopen the strait, as the situation will remain unchanged while US “aggression” continues.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.He said that Iran has been discussing with Oman creating a new route through the Strait of Hormuz that would be one path with entry and exit lanes.US President Donald Trump said that negotiations with Iran will begin Monday after he decided to hold off on new “disastrous” strikes against Iran to pursue a deal.“Obviously, they don’t want to be attacked. They knew the extent of the attack because they saw it forming,” Trump told reporters on Sunday aboard Air Force One.“Now what we’re doing is we’re talking to them in the form of a negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon,” he said, without providing further details of the venue of the talks or the participants.On Saturday, the US president pulled back from threats for a massive attack against Iran which he said would have been the biggest since World War II, saying the “perimeter” of a deal was there.He reiterated that the scale of the planned strikes would have been “the biggest attack since World War II.”“It would take many, many years to ever build it back if it could -- I don’t think it would even be buildable,” Trump asserted.The war began on February 28 when the US and Israel launched surprise strikes against Iran, though months of on-off diplomacy have led to periods of relative calm.A previous ceasefire deal, including the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz -- a vital conduit for global energy supplies -- fell through, and Iran has since tightened its control over the vital waterway as the two countries resumed attacks against each other in recent weeks.With agencies Read more: Trump says new Iran talks set to start after calling off massive attack