Qatar and a group of other countries are urging the U.S. and Iran to meet and find a compromise to de-escalate tensions, Reuters reported Sunday.

“We believe that at one point there should an engagement – it cannot last forever like this,” Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told reporters in London on Sunday.

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“Since they are not willing to engage in further escalation, they should come up with ideas that open the doors.”

He added Oman, Iraq and Japan have similarly urged de-escalation.

“All these countries are concerned what escalation could lead to,” he said, per Reuters. “There were attempts by Qatar and by other countries in the region to de-escalate the situation: we have been speaking to the U.S. and we have been talking to the Iranians as well.”

“What we are trying to do is really to bridge the gap and create a conversation between the two parties as escalation is not going to benefit anyone in the region,” Sheikh Mohammed added.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated in recent months.

The Trump administration in April labeled the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "foreign terrorist organization," the first time the United States has applied the designation to an entire government entity.

Iran responded by designating all U.S. forces in the Middle East as terrorists.

The U.S. has since deployed a carrier to the region and announced it would be sending 1,500 troops as well in response to unspecified threats from Iran.

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