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Tehran is ready to restart nuclear negotiations with Washington on condition that it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat declared only diplomacy produced results, and shared new appeals had come from go-betweens to resume talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to allow the global atomic watchdog to access attacked atomic facilities for safety concerns.

Walking a Challenging Route

The foreign minister is navigating a complex route since Iran aims to avoid appear to be proceeding from a situation of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful militarily and mentally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will perpetually retain" – the main reason of the impasse in the previous talks.

Previous Discussions Abruptly Concluded

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious end on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader asserting the sites had been obliterated. Afterward, EU nations used their authority to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Proposed

Iranian officials claimed they felt they had attained a "magic solution" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with US participation could refine atomic fuel. The two nations would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been settled in the talks that American atomic experts could function within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats claimed 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".

Existing Situation

Iran's diplomats declared the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be resurrected in some form if talks restart.

The US president in recent days stated he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iranian officials say they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been accused of passivity in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran asserts negotiations is not part of a performance.

Political Stance

In his remarks to the forum, designed to portray the US as a controlling nation that misuses the idea of worldwide standards, Araghchi declared the fortnight-long engagement showed the clash could not be ended by military means. He asserted the assaults started with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and culminated with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with full US knowledge and collaboration, making confidence hard to rebuild.

Negotiations Remains the Ultimate Resolution

Araghchi stated: "Tehran was not the one that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had always attempted to impose their demands during the talks. Dialogue can still be active and remains the primary answer to resolve conflicts, but its requirements, guidelines and fundamentals must be respected."

"In case they address to the Iranian people with the approach of dignity and respect, they will get a reply in the same language."

Recovery and Recovery

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the struggle of recovery and reconstruction, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been reestablished. We learned numerous insights from this war; we have identified our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He continued: "We effectively endured this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to destroy, stays intact. The facilities and equipment, if eliminated, will be restored; what is important is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but did not succeed to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have become more resilient, more united, and more endorsing of the leadership and the nation in the aftermath of this attack."