TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran confirmed that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his US counterpart John Kerry conferred on the nuclear issue and the latest developments in the region, including Yemen, in their Tuesday phone conversation.

Speaking to reporters in a weekly press conference in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham confirmed the phone conversation, but said the main topic has been the nuclear negotiations, while other regional issues could have also gone on the agenda, specially those pertaining to the region.


"In some cases it happens that the two sides have some conversation on the threshold of the nuclear talks and the (phone) conversation has been done in the same framework," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham told reporters.


"The phone conversation focused on the nuclear negotiations and the regional issues could have also gone under discussion on the sideline," she added.


Afkham also welcomed Saudi Arabia's decision to end the airstrikes and join the political efforts with regard to Yemen, and said, "All countries should play a role so that a political solution will be pursued. When certain sides form a coalition for war, Iran is after a coalition for peace. We play our role to help (establish) peace and expect all to help the start of Yemeni-Yemeni talks."


Afkham, meantime, dismissed media reports that the last nigh talks merely focused on Yemen.


Her remarks came after the Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper reported that the Iranian and US top diplomats held phone talks on the situation in Yemen on Tuesday.


According to the daily, Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that the US doesn�t favor spread of the crisis to the region, will contact the Saudi officials immediately to halt airstrikes against Yemen and will cooperate to start the political process in Yemen.


Last night, Saudi Arabia declared that it would stop bombing Yemen's cities after 27 days of airstrikes on Yemeni cities that resulted in the death of around 2,900 people, mostly women and children.


Senior Saudi officials said they would stop their attacks, stating that they have obtained their goals, including elimination of threats through a destruction of Yemen's ballistic missiles, a claim already rejected by senior Ansarullah leader Habib Zuhair al-Muslim.


In his interview with FNA on Tuesday, Muslim denied the claims made by Ahmed al-Assiri, the spokesman of Saudi-led coalition's 'Decisive Storm' military operation, about the destruction of 80% of the arms and ammunition of the Ansarullah movement in the Saudi-led airstrikes.


Muslim told FNA that Ansarullah revolutionaries' arms, armored vehicles and rockets were stored in secret and safe depots, and Saudi Arabia might not find their whereabouts.


Iran was the only state that had on Tuesday informed of the imminent stop of the Saudi attacks on Yemen, and observers see this as a victory for Iran's hectic diplomacy in another regional case.


Iran sent a 4-step Yemen peace initiative to the UN chief last week.


Zarif wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, and demanded adoption of the necessary moves by the world body to put an immediate end to the bloodshed, describing the conditions on the ground in Yemen as "alarming".


"The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that all efforts, particularly those by the United Nations, should be guided, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, by the following objectives: 1. Ceasefire and an immediate end to all foreign military attacks; 2. Unimpeded urgent humanitarian and medical assistance to the people of Yemen; 3. Resumption of Yemeni-lead and Yemeni-owned national dialogue, with the participation of the�representatives of all political parties and social groups; 4. Establishment of an inclusive national unity government," Zarif said in his letter.


Saudi Arabia launched its airstrikes on March 26 in a move to restore power to fugitive president Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression claimed the lives of around 2,900 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children. The attacks have also left thousands of people injured.


Hadi stepped down in January and refused to reconsider the decision despite calls by Ansarullah revolutionaries of the Houthi movement.


Despite Riyadh's claims that it was bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes were flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.


Five Persian Gulf States -- Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait -- and Egypt that are also assisted by Israel and backed by the US declared war on Yemen in a joint statement issued on March 26.


The Riyadh officials said the Saudi-led coalition operations in�Yemen are now entering a political phase, but the latest reports from different Yemeni cities say that the Saudi airstrikes are still underway.


By Fars News Agency