An Iranian official told CNN that recent indirect talks with the United States aimed at addressing Tehran’s nuclear program and lifting sanctions were “not genuine” from the American side and were likely designed from the outset as a “trap to draw the situation toward tension.

Iran and the United States will meet again this weekend for talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency called the Iranian foreign minister on Friday to talk about the course of indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the US.