The Trump administration is "ready to do business with Iran," a senior US official told reporters on Monday.
"We are open for business. The [Islamic Republic's regime] knows our number if they want to get in touch with us," the official said.
Iran "knows the terms [of a potential deal,] and these are the same terms that have been presented since the Trump administration took office," the official added.
The White House's conditions for a deal have been communicated to Tehran many times in the last year, they noted.
"They want to make a deal. I know so. They called on numerous occasions. They want to talk."
Trump reveals Iran approached US requesting return to negotiations
Trump, earlier this month, revealed that Iran has approached the US to request a return to negotiations regarding a new nuclear deal.
“I think they’re tired of being beaten up by the United States,” he said. “Iran wants to negotiate.”
"We may need to act before a meeting with them… we are in the process of coordinating a meeting,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei stated at the time that communication lines between Tehran and Washington remained open, including through a US special envoy or through traditional intermediaries such as Switzerland.
Baghaei said that "contradictory messages" had been sent that caused ambiguity and that Iran remained committed to diplomacy.
In November, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi commented that Washington's approach toward Tehran did not indicate any readiness for "equal and fair negotiations."
"The US cannot expect to gain what it couldn't in war through negotiations," he said at the time.
During June's Israel-Iran war, the Islamic Regime claimed that dialogue with the US over Tehran's nuclear program is "meaningless" after Washington supported Israeli airstrikes.
"The other side (the US) acted in a way that makes dialogue meaningless. You cannot claim to negotiate and at the same time divide work by allowing the Zionist regime (Israel) to target Iran's territory," the semi-official Tasnim News Agency quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei as saying at the time.
Shortly before the war broke out, Trump told Fox News that Iran was becoming "much more aggressive" in nuclear talks.
A sixth round of indirect talks was scheduled for June 15, but was cancelled due to the Israel-Iran war breaking out.
US officials have said that any deal would have to include the removal of all of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, a cap on its stockpile of long-range missiles, a change in Iran's policy of supporting regional terror proxies, such as the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and a ban on independently enriching uranium, according to Axios's Barak Ravid.
Lara Sukster Mosheyof and Reuters contributed to this report.