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Tehran, Aug 20 (IANS) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that negotiating with the United States did not mean surrender. At a conference in Tehran on Wednesday (local time), Pezeshkian stressed the need to defend Iran's territorial integrity, according to a statement posted on his office's website. "In the process of negotiations, we are moving forward step by step at the height of our power and while maintaining wisdom, dignity and expediency," Pezeshkian said. "Our goals have been to end the war, lift the (anti-Iran naval) blockade, release the country's frozen assets and, then, (hold) nuclear talks," he noted. US…