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Tehran is willing to restart nuclear negotiations with the United States as long as it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has stated.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue worked, and disclosed new appeals had been made by intermediaries to resume talks with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran did not have unreported enrichment locations, and Iran had not yet reached a point to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Navigating a Challenging Path

Araghchi is treading a difficult path since Iran does not want be seen to be operating from a situation of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful militarily and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material within its borders that it will never give up" – the main reason of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Earlier Discussions Unexpectedly Ended

The earlier sessions of negotiations between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and bitter termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the American leader claiming the locations had been destroyed. Following this, European countries used their right to restore international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Suggested

Tehran representatives said they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to declare success since domestic enrichment would have persisted and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the negotiations that American atomic experts could work within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Diplomats asserted repeatedly they had achieved a deal with the US representative Steve Witkoff only for the arrangement to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Current Position

Tehran representatives said the partnership proposal was now withdrawn, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be reintroduced in various formats if talks restart.

Trump last week stated he had been getting signals that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Iran's diplomats state they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from America either straightforwardly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a show.

Political Standpoint

In his remarks to the gathering, designed to paint the US as a dominant force that abuses the idea of global regulations, the foreign minister declared the 12-day war revealed the dispute could not be settled by combat operations. He said the strikes commenced with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making faith difficult to reestablish.

Negotiations Remains the Final Solution

Araghchi declared: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned diplomacy; it was the United States and the European states that had repeatedly attempted to impose their desires during the talks. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the final resolution to resolve disagreements, but its standards, rules and tenets must be followed."

"In case they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the language of respect and honor, they will get a answer in the identical approach."

Restoration and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of restoration and reconstruction, Araghchi claimed he was assured Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We learned many lessons from this engagement; we have identified our internal vulnerabilities and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He continued: "We managed to survive this war. Our atomic expertise, which they planned to destroy, remains in place. The installations and machinery, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the determination of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have grown more resilient, more united, and more backing of the government and the nation in the wake of this attack."