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Tehran is prepared to reinitiate nuclear negotiations with the United States on condition that it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat declared only diplomacy worked, and disclosed new appeals had been made by go-betweens to restart negotiations with the US government. He said Iran did not have unreported enrichment locations, and Iran was not yet able to allow the global atomic watchdog to access struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Navigating a Challenging Route

Araghchi is navigating a complex route since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be acting from a position of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen stronger defensively and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel within its borders that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the impasse in the prior discussions.

Earlier Talks Suddenly Ended

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the American leader asserting the facilities had been destroyed. Subsequently, European countries exercised their privilege to restore global restrictions, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Proposed

Tehran representatives stated they felt they had achieved a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with US participation could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to declare success since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could work inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Officials claimed on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the arrangement to collapse due to "detractors in America".

Current Position

Tehran representatives stated the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems quite possible the offer could be revived in certain ways if talks restart.

The US president recently claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to restart talks, but confidentially Iran's diplomats state they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from Washington either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been accused of inactivity in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Stance

In his address to the gathering, intended to depict the US as a dominant force that abuses the concept of international law, Araghchi declared the fortnight-long engagement revealed the conflict could not be ended by combat operations. He said the assaults started with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were mounted with total Washington understanding and collaboration, making confidence hard to reestablish.

Dialogue Stays the Primary Solution

The foreign minister stated: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned dialogue; it was America and the Western nations that had always attempted to impose their desires during the talks. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the final answer to address disagreements, but its standards, guidelines and tenets must be adhered to."

"In case they speak to the Iranian people with the language of dignity and honor, they will get a response in the equivalent tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Tehran representatives as the battle of repair and rebuilding, the foreign minister stated he was assured Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We gained many lessons from this conflict; we have discovered our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He stated: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to destroy, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is important is the will of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but failed to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have become stronger, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the government and the state in the face of this invasion."