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Iran is ready to reinitiate atomic negotiations with the United States provided that it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi stated exclusively dialogue worked, and disclosed recent overtures had originated from intermediaries to reopen talks with the US government. He said Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran could not yet permit the UN nuclear inspectorate to inspect struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Walking a Challenging Path

The foreign minister is walking a difficult route since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be operating from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out stronger militarily and psychologically from the Israeli-US attack on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the impasse in the previous talks.

Prior Discussions Unexpectedly Concluded

The previous five rounds of discussions between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile end on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that culminated with the US president claiming the sites had been eliminated. Afterward, Western states employed their right to reimpose international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a significant effect.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iranian officials claimed they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the uranium processing matter in prior discussions, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been agreed in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could function on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Representatives asserted on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the arrangement to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Present Position

Tehran representatives said the partnership proposal was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be reintroduced in some form if negotiations resume.

The American leader last week stated he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to resume discussions, but privately Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet receiving coherent offers from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of non-responsiveness in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran says dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the conference, aimed to depict the US as a controlling nation that misuses the idea of worldwide standards, the foreign minister said the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the conflict could not be resolved by combat operations. He said the strikes commenced with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an absolute demand for a truce.

Iran is certain the first strikes by Israel were carried out with full US knowledge and cooperation, making faith hard to restore.

Negotiations Stays the Primary Resolution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had fled dialogue; it was the United States and the Western nations that had always attempted to impose their will during the negotiations. Dialogue can still be viable and remains the final answer to settle disputes, but its requirements, guidelines and fundamentals must be respected."

"Provided that they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the language of dignity and honor, they will get a reply in the identical language."

Recovery and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the conflict of restoration and rebuilding, the foreign minister said he was assured Iran's defence capabilities "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been reestablished. We acquired multiple understandings from this war; we have discovered our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our atomic expertise, which they planned to destroy, stays intact. The facilities and machinery, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is important is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but were unable to shatter. The nation of Iran have become more powerful, more united, and more supportive of the government and the state in the wake of this attack."