Iran welcomes a potential "fair and balanced" US nuclear proposal, but Tehran has not received any proposal for negotiations, the country's top diplomat said on Saturday.
"If we receive a reasonable, balanced, and fair proposal from the Americans for negotiations, we will certainly consider it," Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told state television.
However, Araghchi said Tehran will not give up its "right to enrich uranium" but can take confidence-building measures regarding "the peaceful nature of its nuclear program."
"Of course, this is conditional on the other side also taking steps to build trust - by lifting part of the sanctions," Araghchi said, adding that Tehran and Washington had been exchanging messages through mediators.
The United States, its European allies, and Israel accuse Tehran of using its nuclear program to conceal efforts to try to develop the capability to produce weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Prior to a 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June, which Washington joined by striking key nuclear sites, Tehran and Washington held five rounds of nuclear talks but faced major stumbling blocks such as uranium enrichment on Iranian soil, which Western powers want to bring down to zero to minimize any risk of weaponization.
Iran dismisses Trump's suggestion of normalizing ties with Israel as 'wishful thinking'
Iran described on Saturday the possibility, suggested by US President Donald Trump, that it could normalize relations with Israel as "wishful thinking."
Late last month, Trump said: "Who knows, maybe even Iran can get in there," referring to the Abraham Accords - a peace agreement signed during Trump's first term under which Israel normalized diplomatic relations with four Muslim-majority nations.
"Iran will never recognize an occupied regime that has committed genocide and killed children," Araghchi told Iranian state television.