TEHRAN – An Iranian source denied a media report on Saturday that quoted Iraqi President Jalal Talabani as saying U.S. and Iranian officials have held talks on Iraq.

Iraq's independent Sharqiya television channel said Jalal Talabani told writers at a cultural festival that U.S.-Iranian talks "dedicated to the Iraq issue" took place "a while ago" in the Kurdish lakeside resort of Dukan in northern Iraq.

“There was no meeting between the U.S. and Iranian officials in Iraq,” the source told the Mehr News Agency.

A spokesman at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad said he was unaware of such a meeting.

An Iraqi source said that talks might have been held between Iran and the U.S., but it does not mean that they were direct and official.