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Iran is willing to resume nuclear talks with Washington provided that it is approached with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue worked, and shared new appeals had come from go-betweens to resume negotiations with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran did not have undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran could not yet permit the global atomic watchdog to visit struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Walking a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is navigating a complex course since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be proceeding from a situation of disadvantage, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had come out more resilient defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will perpetually retain" – the primary cause of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Prior Discussions Suddenly Terminated

The earlier sessions of talks between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader claiming the locations had been destroyed. Following this, Western states used their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran maintains they have not had a significant effect.

Perfect Agreement Proposed

Tehran representatives stated they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was settled an local partnership with Washington's engagement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the talks that US nuclear scientists could work within Iranian territory, but that was a natural consequence of the cooperative offer. Representatives stated three times they had reached agreement with the US representative the US official only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "spoilers in Washington".

Existing Position

Iranian officials stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the offer could be resurrected in various formats if discussions restart.

The US president in recent days claimed he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to resume discussions, but privately Iranian officials claim they are not yet getting coherent offers from America either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of inactivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran says diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Position

In his speech to the gathering, aimed to portray the US as a hegemonic power that exploits the notion of global regulations, Araghchi said the two-week conflict showed the clash could not be resolved by military means. He said the attacks began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is certain the initial Israeli attacks were executed with complete American awareness and collaboration, making faith hard to restore.

Diplomacy Continues the Final Answer

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted diplomacy; it was the United States and the Western nations that had consistently tried to enforce their will during the talks. Negotiations can still be active and remains the primary solution to resolve disputes, but its criteria, rules and principles must be adhered to."

"If they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of dignity and respect, they will obtain a answer in the same language."

Restoration and Recovery

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the struggle of restoration and reconstruction, Araghchi stated he was certain Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We acquired many lessons from this conflict; we have discovered our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He stated: "We successfully passed this war. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and gear, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the unity of the country that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to break. The citizens of Tehran have grown more powerful, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the leadership and the state in the wake of this attack."