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Tehran is willing to restart atomic talks with the United States as long as it is approached with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has announced.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and disclosed fresh requests had come from mediators to restart discussions with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Tehran could not yet authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Walking a Difficult Course

Araghchi is navigating a complex course since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be operating from a situation of disadvantage, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had emerged stronger defensively and emotionally from the joint assault on its atomic facilities in June.

He was addressing at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an inalienable right to process nuclear material domestically that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Negotiations Suddenly Concluded

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the American leader claiming the facilities had been obliterated. Following this, European countries exercised their privilege to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a major impact.

Ideal Resolution Suggested

Tehran representatives stated they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was decided an domestic cooperative with American involvement could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the talks that American atomic experts could operate within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Representatives stated repeatedly they had secured an understanding with the US representative the American negotiator only for the agreement to collapse due to "detractors in America".

Existing Status

Iran's diplomats declared the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems quite possible the proposal could be reintroduced in some form if talks restart.

The American leader recently stated he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to restart talks, but privately Tehran representatives say they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from the United States either directly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been accused of passivity in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran states dialogue is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his speech to the gathering, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that misuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister said the fortnight-long engagement showed the conflict could not be ended by combat operations. He stated the attacks started with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and ended with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were executed with complete American awareness and collaboration, making trust difficult to reestablish.

Diplomacy Continues the Final Answer

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had fled diplomacy; it was America and the European states that had consistently sought to enforce their desires during the talks. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the primary solution to settle disputes, but its criteria, regulations and fundamentals must be respected."

"In case they speak to the nation of Iran with the language of dignity and respect, they will obtain a answer in the identical tone."

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the struggle of recovery and reconstruction, Araghchi claimed he was certain Iran's security strengths "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We gained numerous insights from this conflict; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He stated: "We successfully passed this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to destroy, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the will of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but failed to break. The Iranian people have grown more powerful, more integrated, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the wake of this assault."