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

Abbas Araghchi said solely negotiations produced results, and revealed fresh requests had come from intermediaries to restart discussions with the US government. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran could not yet authorize the global atomic watchdog to access bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Navigating a Difficult Route

The foreign minister is treading a challenging path since Iran aims to avoid appear to be acting from a position of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out stronger defensively and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to enrich uranium on home soil that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Discussions Abruptly Terminated

The prior phases of discussions between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that culminated with Donald Trump claiming the locations had been eliminated. Afterward, Western states employed their right to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Magic Solution Suggested

Tehran representatives stated they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was decided an domestic cooperative with US participation could refine atomic fuel. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could work within Iranian territory, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Officials asserted repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the agreement to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Present Situation

Iranian officials stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if talks restart.

The US president recently said he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to restart talks, but confidentially Iran's diplomats say they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from Washington either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of inactivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran asserts negotiations is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Position

In his address to the forum, intended to depict the US as a hegemonic power that misuses the idea of global regulations, the foreign minister declared the 12-day war showed the conflict could not be ended by military means. He asserted the strikes began with a American requirement for an total Iran submission and concluded with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is certain the first strikes by Israel were executed with complete American awareness and collaboration, making confidence hard to reestablish.

Dialogue Remains the Final Answer

Araghchi stated: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned diplomacy; it was the United States and the western countries that had always tried to enforce their demands during the negotiations. Dialogue can still be active and continues the ultimate resolution to resolve disagreements, but its requirements, regulations and tenets must be respected."

"Provided that they address to the nation of Iran with the approach of respect and respect, they will obtain a response in the same language."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of recovery and recovery, Araghchi said he was assured Iran's defence capabilities "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this war; we have come to know our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the enemy."

He added: "We managed to survive this war. Our nuclear technology, which they intended to eliminate, remains in place. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but were unable to break. The citizens of Tehran have become more resilient, more integrated, and more endorsing of the government and the country in the aftermath of this invasion."