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Tehran is willing to reinitiate nuclear talks with Washington as long as it is handled with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

The Iranian diplomat stated solely negotiations was effective, and shared fresh requests had originated from go-betweens to resume negotiations with the American leadership. He claimed Iran had zero secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Navigating a Challenging Route

The foreign minister is walking a challenging route since Iran wishes not to be seen to be operating from a situation of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more powerful militarily and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

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

Earlier Negotiations Abruptly Concluded

The earlier sessions of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that ended with Donald Trump declaring the sites had been obliterated. Subsequently, Western states exercised their privilege to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iran's diplomats claimed they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was agreed an domestic cooperative with American involvement could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Officials stated three times they had secured an understanding with the US representative the American negotiator only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Present Position

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems very probable the offer could be reintroduced in certain ways if negotiations resume.

Trump last week said he had been getting signals that Iran desired to reopen negotiations, but confidentially Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet receiving coherent offers from America either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been accused of inactivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran says dialogue is not part of a show.

Diplomatic Stance

In his address to the conference, intended to portray the US as a controlling nation that misuses the concept of global regulations, Araghchi declared the two-week conflict demonstrated the dispute could not be resolved by armed force. He said the strikes began with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an absolute demand for a truce.

Iran is convinced the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with total Washington understanding and collaboration, making confidence difficult to reestablish.

Diplomacy Stays the Final Answer

The foreign minister said: "It was not Iran that had fled dialogue; it was the United States and the Western nations that had consistently tried to impose their demands during the talks. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the final resolution to address disputes, but its standards, regulations and principles must be adhered to."

"Provided that they speak to the nation of Iran with the tone of respect and honor, they will obtain a response in the same tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Tehran representatives as the conflict of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister stated he was certain Iran's defence capabilities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been restored. We acquired many lessons from this conflict; we have identified our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He added: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they planned to eliminate, stays intact. The installations and machinery, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is important is the will of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have grown stronger, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the government and the state in the aftermath of this assault."