Qatari mediators are working behind the scenes to bridge the divide between Iran and the United States, sending proposals back and forth to jumpstart negotiations, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Sunday.

“For the past couple of weeks now, we’ve been going back and forth over different ideas to restart the talks,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari told Bloomberg’s “This Weekend.”

Ansari detailed how Qatari teams have worked through mediators with “both Tehran and the U.S.” following the resurgence of hostilities to see if formally resuming negotiations is possible.

“A lot of ideas have been thrown back and forth,” Ansari said. “This is just one iteration of these documents going back and forth, and we’re trying to bridge the gap and find the right moment to move forward.”

Ansari expressed hope that diplomatic efforts would bring “other documents and other ideas that could actually develop the discussion even more.”

“But as we are speaking right now, our mediators are shuttling between different capitals in the hopes of developing that even further,” he told the outlet.

Houthi officials warned other nations Sunday against joining Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s civil war while assuring Washington that U.S. ships in the Red Sea won’t be attacked.

Speaking to The Associated Press, Mohamed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthis’ political bureau, said the U.S had contacted the group after they advanced along Yemen’s coast toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

“We confirmed that we are not targeting the United States, or any other nation, in the strait, with the sole exception of the Saudi enemy,” al-Bukhaiti said.

“That remains the case.” President Donald Trump also said last weekend that his team “had discussions” with the Houthis but did not specify when.

“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” he said. “They would much prefer not having us involved, and they’re letting most ships go through.”

Oil prices rose in early Asian trading after the Houthis launched missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, over the weekend.

Brent crude futures climbed 81 cents, or 0.8%, to $104.68 a barrel by 2202 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 76 cents, or 0.8%, to $101.06 a barrel, Reuters reported.

The rising threat to Saudi energy infrastructure, along with the closure of the East-West pipeline and the Houthis’ control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, has also heightened concerns about global oil supplies.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) showcased its sailors aboard the destroyer USS John Finn carrying out operations in the Arabian Sea amid the conflict with Iran on Sunday.

“A look into the daily operations of U.S. Navy Sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG 113) as the guided-missile destroyer supports military operations in the Arabian Sea,” the command said in a post shared on X.

France will summon Iran’s ambassador and take measures after Iranian officials sealed a French-language center affiliated with the French Embassy in Tehran, the French Foreign Ministry confirmed Sunday.

“This new attack against France’s cultural presence in Iran, following the assault on two French Embassy staff members last July, is unjustifiable and unacceptable,” ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux said in a statement shared on X.

Iran’s state news agency IRNA also reported that the judiciary had closed the center over what it said were “illegal acts” that violated diplomatic conventions.

It accused the institute of abusing its status as a language school to identify and build networks among prominent Iranians, Iran International reported.

Iran’s embassy in Hyderabad, India, said Sunday that Washington has “no option” but to accept Tehran’s rights and conditions if it wants to begin negotiations with Iran.

“Iran has communicated its 7 conditions for the commencement of any negotiations to the U.S. administration,” the embassy said in a post shared on X.

“Tehran’s message is clear and unambiguous: if Washington seeks to extricate itself from the predicament of its own making and avoid further entanglement, it has no option but to accept Iran’s rights and conditions,” it added.

The statement came after Supreme National Security Council Secretary Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei said Iran had communicated seven conditions to Washington.

“If Washington wants to get out of the quagmire it created for itself and avoid becoming further entangled in it, it has no choice but to accept Iran’s rights,” Rezaei said on X.

The world is safer under President Donald Trump, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said Sunday, arguing the president’s decisive stance on Iran helped prevent what he described as a potential nuclear disaster in the Middle East.

“We live in a safe world because Donald J. Trump is in the White House,” Burchett said on Burchett said on Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show.”

“The Iranians were close to nuclear; they were getting ready to launch Armageddon, from what I understand,” Burchett said. “If President Trump [had not] intervened over there, Iran would have a nuclear weapon.”

Burchett added that Tehran likely would have launched a nuclear strike against Israel “or somebody else.”

“That’s why he had so much support from other Middle Eastern Muslim nations — because they knew they didn’t want any more of that,” Burchett said. “They don’t want to see their kids dying any more than we do, and yet the media will not give us any credit for that.”

Burchett’s remarks came as Trump warned Tehran that it “better behave” amid escalating regional tensions.

Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reported Sunday that Trump is in “deciding mode” over potential strikes while warning that “big things” could happen if the regime fails to comply.