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Tehran is willing to resume atomic negotiations with Washington provided that it is handled with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has stated.

Abbas Araghchi said only diplomacy produced results, and shared recent overtures had been made by go-betweens to restart negotiations with the Trump administration. He said Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran could not yet permit the UN nuclear inspectorate to access attacked atomic facilities for safety concerns.

Walking a Complex Course

Araghchi is navigating a difficult route since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be proceeding from a stance of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more resilient in military terms and psychologically from the Israeli-US attack on its atomic facilities in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will never give up" – the key factor of the stalemate in the previous talks.

Earlier Talks Abruptly Concluded

The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the US president asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Afterward, European countries exercised their right to reinstate UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Perfect Agreement Suggested

Tehran representatives claimed they felt they had reached a "magic solution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was settled an local partnership with US participation could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the talks that American atomic experts could work within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Representatives asserted repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the arrangement to collapse due to "detractors in America".

Existing Status

Iran's diplomats stated the partnership proposal was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the offer could be reintroduced in various formats if negotiations restart.

Trump recently said he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iran's diplomats say they are not yet getting clear proposals from America either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of non-responsiveness in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Standpoint

In his speech to the conference, intended to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of worldwide standards, the foreign minister said the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the dispute could not be resolved by armed force. He said the assaults began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is convinced the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with total Washington understanding and coordination, making confidence difficult to reestablish.

Dialogue Stays the Primary Solution

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned diplomacy; it was America and the European states that had repeatedly attempted to enforce their demands during the negotiations. Negotiations can still be viable and continues the ultimate answer to settle disputes, but its standards, guidelines and tenets must be respected."

"If they talk to the Iranian people with the tone of respect and respect, they will obtain a answer in the equivalent language."

Restoration and Recovery

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the battle of restoration and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We learned multiple understandings from this conflict; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to obliterate, remains in place. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be restored; what is essential is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but failed to break. The Iranian people have grown more resilient, more united, and more backing of the leadership and the state in the aftermath of this invasion."