Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Fox News that Tehran cannot give up on its uranium enrichment program, which was severely damaged during the conflict with Israel last month.

Araghchi said the damage to the nuclear facilities in Iran after the U.S. and Israeli strikes was serious and was being evaluated further.

"It is stopped because, yes, damages are serious and severe. But obviously we cannot give up (on) enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists. And now, more than that, it is a question of national pride," the foreign minister told the Fox News show "Special Report with Bret Baier" on Monday.

Araghchi also said Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was in "good health" and Tehran was open to nuclear talks with Washington but those will not be direct "for the time being."

Prior to the conflict, Tehran and Washington held five rounds of nuclear talks mediated by Oman but could not agree on the extent to which Iran should be allowed to enrich uranium. A planned meeting on June 15 was cancelled after Israel launched strikes on Iran, triggering a 12-day conflict.

The United States launched its own strikes against Iran's nuclear program on June 22, hitting the uranium enrichment facility at Fordow as well as nuclear sites in Isfahan and Natanz.

A ceasefire between Israel and Iran was reached in late June.

Israel and the U.S. say Iran was close to enriching to levels that would allow it to quickly produce a nuclear weapon, while Tehran says its enrichment program is for civilian purposes only.

Iran is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while Israel is not. The UN nuclear watchdog says it has "no credible indication" of an active, coordinated weapons program in Iran.

(With input from Reuters)