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By Sara Rajabova

President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to push for a diplomatic resolution to Iran's suspected attempt to build a nuclear weapon, while restating his insistence that Tehran will never be allowed to acquire a bomb, Reuters reported.

"I will try to make a push in the coming months to see if we can open up a dialogue between Iran and - not just us but the international community - to see if we can get this thing resolved," he said at a White House news conference.

"We're not going to let Iran get a nuclear weapon, but I think there is still a window of time for us to resolve this diplomatically," Obama added.

Earlier in November, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said problems related to his country's nuclear program must be discussed directly with the United States.

Ahmadinejad said Iran hails all relations based on justice and mutual respect and believes in friendly relations between peoples and governments.

On the other hand, the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili said on Wednesday that the world public is waiting for a logical reply from 5+1 -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany -- regarding a four-month delay in the process of their nuclear negotiations with Iran, Press TV reported.

Jalili made the comments in a meeting with visiting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who is meanwhile his country's representative at the G5+1.

The Secretariat Office of the SNSC further quoted Jalili as saying that Iran is just as always ready for resuming negotiations, adding that Iran hopes the 5+1 group would return to the negotiating table as soon as possible.

Besides, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov called on Wednesday for resumption of negotiations between Iran and the six world powers.

Ryabkov said the issue of recognizing Iran's right to enrichment could be one of the topics for discussion at the upcoming talks.

He said Iran is legitimately insisting on taking advantage of its full nuclear rights within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of which it is a signatory.

Ryabkov said the negotiations between Iran and P5+1 should continue under any circumstances.

Commenting on what Moscow's reaction to one-to-one talks between Tehran and Washington would be, the Russian chief nuclear negotiator said his country would not oppose direct talks between the two countries.

'We would not have a word against this. [But] of course, we would hope we would be informed on the content of these arrangements," he added.

Iran and P5+1 have held several rounds of multifaceted talks mainly focusing on the Iran nuclear energy issue.

Meanwhile, top negotiators from the six world powers are scheduled to meet in Brussels to discuss Iran's nuclear energy program as they are planning to arrange a new round of talks with Iran.

The next round of talks between Iran and P5+1 is to be held on December 13.

Tehran has repeatedly voiced its readiness to negotiate based on mutual respect while stating that it will not give up its inalienable rights under any circumstances.

Recently, Reuters reported quoting diplomatic sources that Iran and the U.N. nuclear agency are also planning to hold a new round of talks in mid-December in Tehran over Iran's disputed atomic program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) hopes to use the talks to reach an agreement that would allow it to resume a long-stalled investigation into possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program, a senior diplomatic source said.

The last round of talks between the IAEA and Iran took place in August but failed to make tangible progress.

Western countries have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program, an allegation Tehran denies.