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Iran is willing to reinitiate atomic negotiations with Washington as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

Abbas Araghchi declared only diplomacy was effective, and revealed fresh requests had been made by intermediaries to restart talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Iran was not yet able to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Navigating a Difficult Path

Araghchi is treading a difficult course since Iran does not want be seen to be operating from a stance of disadvantage, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had emerged stronger defensively and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium on home soil that it will perpetually retain" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the previous talks.

Previous Negotiations Abruptly Ended

The prior phases of discussions between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader claiming the locations had been destroyed. Following this, Western states employed their privilege to restore international penalties, but Iran insists they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Suggested

Iranian officials claimed they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was decided an Iran-based consortium with American involvement could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been settled in the discussions that American atomic experts could function within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Diplomats asserted repeatedly they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the deal to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".

Present Status

Tehran representatives declared the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be resurrected in certain ways if discussions restart.

Trump in recent days claimed he had been getting signals that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but in private Iran's diplomats state they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from the United States either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran states diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Standpoint

In his speech to the conference, designed to paint the US as a dominant force that abuses the idea of worldwide standards, Araghchi said the 12-day war demonstrated the clash could not be ended by armed force. He stated the attacks began with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an unconditional call for a ceasefire.

Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were executed with complete American awareness and coordination, making faith challenging to reestablish.

Diplomacy Remains the Primary Answer

Araghchi stated: "Tehran was not the one that had fled dialogue; it was America and the western countries that had repeatedly tried to impose their will during the talks. Diplomacy can still be alive and continues the primary solution to resolve conflicts, but its standards, rules and tenets must be adhered to."

"Provided that they address to the nation of Iran with the tone of dignity and honor, they will receive a reply in the identical approach."

Recovery and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the battle of restoration and recovery, the foreign minister stated he was assured Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We learned multiple understandings from this engagement; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the shortcomings of the opponent."

He continued: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and machinery, if destroyed, will be restored; what is crucial is the will of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but failed to break. The nation of Iran have grown more resilient, more integrated, and more supportive of the leadership and the nation in the wake of this attack."