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Iran is prepared to resume atomic negotiations with Washington on condition that it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

The Iranian diplomat stated exclusively dialogue produced results, and revealed new appeals had originated from intermediaries to resume negotiations with the American leadership. He said Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Iran was not yet able to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to access attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Walking a Complex Course

Araghchi is walking a difficult course since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a situation of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more powerful defensively and psychologically 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 refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Prior Discussions Abruptly Terminated

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a 12-day war that concluded with the US president declaring the facilities had been destroyed. Afterward, Western states used their right to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had attained a "magic solution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to claim victory since local refinement would have continued and the US could be confident that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the talks that American atomic experts could operate inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Representatives stated on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff only for the arrangement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Present Position

Iranian officials stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the proposal could be reintroduced in some form if negotiations resume.

The US president in recent days claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but confidentially Iranian officials say they are not yet getting consistent overtures from the United States either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of passivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran asserts dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his speech to the conference, designed to portray the US as a controlling nation that misuses the notion of global regulations, Araghchi said the 12-day war revealed the dispute could not be resolved by combat operations. He said the attacks started with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were mounted with full US knowledge and collaboration, making confidence hard to rebuild.

Diplomacy Stays the Ultimate Resolution

Araghchi said: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned negotiations; it was America and the European states that had repeatedly attempted to impose their will during the discussions. Negotiations can still be active and continues the ultimate answer to address conflicts, but its standards, regulations and principles must be respected."

"If they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the language of dignity and respect, they will receive a answer in the equivalent language."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is described by Iranian officials as the conflict of repair and recovery, Araghchi claimed he was certain Iran's defence capabilities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We gained many lessons from this conflict; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He stated: "We managed to survive this war. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to destroy, continues to exist. The installations and equipment, if damaged, will be restored; what is important is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but did not succeed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have developed more powerful, more united, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the face of this assault."