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Tehran is prepared to restart nuclear negotiations with the United States on condition that it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has announced.

The Iranian diplomat stated solely negotiations worked, and shared recent overtures had been made by go-betweens to reopen negotiations with the American leadership. He asserted Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran could not yet authorize the global atomic watchdog to visit struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Walking a Difficult Route

Araghchi is navigating a challenging route since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a position of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful defensively and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will never give up" – the main reason of the deadlock in the previous talks.

Earlier Negotiations Abruptly Ended

The previous five rounds of talks between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and hostile termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a 12-day war that concluded with the US president asserting the sites had been obliterated. Subsequently, EU nations exercised their right to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. The two nations would have been able to declare success since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be confident that Iran's atomic project was entirely non-military.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a natural consequence of the consortium proposal. Representatives claimed on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the deal to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Existing Position

Iranian officials stated the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems quite possible the proposal could be revived in various formats if negotiations reopen.

The US president recently said he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to restart talks, but confidentially Iranian officials state they are not yet obtaining clear proposals from the United States either explicitly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of non-responsiveness in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran asserts diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Position

In his address to the conference, aimed to depict the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister said the two-week conflict showed the conflict could not be resolved by armed force. He asserted the strikes commenced with a Washington's ultimatum for an total Iran submission and ended with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the first strikes by Israel were carried out with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making trust challenging to restore.

Dialogue Continues the Final Solution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had deserted dialogue; it was the United States and the western countries that had always sought to dictate their desires during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be viable and stays the ultimate answer to settle disagreements, but its requirements, rules and tenets must be followed."

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

Repair and Recovery

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the battle of recovery and reconstruction, the foreign minister said he was confident Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We acquired numerous insights from this war; we have discovered our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the adversary."

He stated: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to destroy, remains in place. The facilities and gear, if damaged, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but failed to break. The nation of Iran have developed more resilient, more integrated, and more backing of the government and the country in the aftermath of this attack."