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Iran is ready to restart atomic negotiations with the United States as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has stated.

Abbas Araghchi declared solely negotiations produced results, and revealed new appeals had come from go-betweens to resume negotiations with the US government. He asserted Iran had zero secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to permit the UN nuclear inspectorate to inspect struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Walking a Difficult Course

Araghchi is navigating a challenging course since Iran does not want be seen to be proceeding from a position of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more powerful in military terms and psychologically from the joint assault on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will always maintain" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the prior discussions.

Earlier Talks Unexpectedly Concluded

The previous five rounds of talks between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader claiming the sites had been obliterated. Afterward, Western states used their privilege to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats claimed they felt they had reached a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could work inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Representatives stated three times they had secured an understanding with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "spoilers in Washington".

Existing Situation

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems very probable the proposal could be resurrected in certain ways if negotiations resume.

The US president in recent days said he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to resume discussions, but confidentially Iran's diplomats say they are not yet getting consistent overtures from America either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been accused of passivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Negotiating Stance

In his remarks to the conference, aimed to paint the US as a dominant force that exploits the notion of international law, Araghchi said the 12-day war demonstrated the conflict could not be ended by combat operations. He stated the strikes began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is convinced the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with full US knowledge and collaboration, making faith challenging to rebuild.

Negotiations Stays the Primary Answer

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had fled diplomacy; it was America and the Western nations that had always sought to enforce their demands during the discussions. Negotiations can still be alive and remains the final solution to address disagreements, but its standards, rules and principles must be followed."

"Provided that they address to the citizens of Tehran with the language of dignity and honor, they will receive a answer in the identical tone."

Recovery and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of repair and reconstruction, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's defence capabilities "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We gained multiple understandings from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He continued: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to obliterate, remains in place. The installations and gear, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is important is the determination of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they sought to undermine, but failed to destroy. The nation of Iran have grown stronger, more integrated, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the face of this assault."