ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed Washington’s claims at the UN Security Council professing its readiness for direct talks as “propaganda,” recalling the US attack in June during the 12-Day War with Israel, and reaffirming Tehran’s right to nuclear energy.

At a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, the United States said it was ready to revive stalled nuclear negotiations with Iran, stressing that any deal must include “no [nuclear] enrichment inside Iran,” with Tehran rejecting its terms as unfair.

"The United States remains available for formal talks with Iran, but only if Tehran is prepared for direct and meaningful dialogue," Trump's deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Iran and the US held five rounds of indirect nuclear talks before Israel launched an attack on Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists, which Washington joined by bombing key nuclear facilities.

Following the 12-Day War and the reimposition of crippling sanctions on Iran for not fulfilling its nuclear obligations, dialogue between Tehran and Western states has grinded to a frosty halt.

 “This rhetoric of the US representative regarding diplomacy and negotiation is merely a propaganda game aimed at deceiving public opinion. Unlike Iran, which has always adhered to ‘meaningful’ diplomacy, the US has shown that it has neither good intentions nor seriousness,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghei said on Wednesday, as cited by the state IRNA news agency.

Baghaei further claimed the US representatives' remarks at the Security Council were ”a repetition of exaggeration that has no basis or logic in international law and the non-proliferation regime.”

While the US demands the full termination of Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran claims its uranium enrichment is used for “peaceful purposes” and refuses to halt its activity.

Baghei stressed that Tehran’s rights as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) “to exploit nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, including enrichment,” are inviolable.

He recalled the June attacks by the United States and Israel, saying Iran was “in the middle of a negotiation process when, together with a genocidal occupying regime, you invaded our land and compatriots and launched Iranicide.”

The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, said on Wednesday that there are still no guidelines for UN inspectors to examine damaged nuclear facilities in June, stressing that “political and psychological pressure and irrelevant demands for repeated inspections of the bombed facilities and the completion of enemy operations are unacceptable and will not be responded to,” according to IRNA.

Since Israeli and US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June, Tehran has routinely blocked the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), from maintaining oversight of its facilities, citing the termination of the nuclear deal’s commitments.

In September, the UN reimposed crippling sanctions on Tehran for allegedly failing to fulfill its nuclear commitments. In turn, Iran blocked the nuclear watchdog from maintaining oversight of its facilities, citing the termination of the nuclear deal’s commitments.