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Tehran is ready to restart atomic discussions with Washington as long as it is handled with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said solely negotiations worked, and shared new appeals had been made by go-betweens to restart talks with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Tehran could not yet authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Navigating a Complex Route

The foreign minister is treading a difficult path since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be acting from a stance of disadvantage, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had come out more powerful defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the stalemate in the previous talks.

Earlier Talks Suddenly Concluded

The previous five rounds of discussions between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter termination on 12 June when Israel, with US support, targeted Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with Donald Trump declaring the sites had been eliminated. Following this, Western states employed their privilege to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran insists they have not had a major impact.

Magic Solution Proposed

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was agreed an local partnership with US participation could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was entirely non-military.

It had not been decided in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could work within Iranian territory, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Representatives asserted on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the agreement to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Current Status

Iran's diplomats stated the partnership proposal was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if talks restart.

Trump in recent days said he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to restart talks, but in private Tehran representatives claim they are not yet getting clear proposals from the United States either directly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been charged of passivity in the aftermath of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran asserts negotiations is not part of a performance.

Political Stance

In his address to the gathering, intended to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the concept of global regulations, the foreign minister stated the two-week conflict revealed the dispute could not be ended by military means. He asserted the assaults commenced with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an unconditional call for a ceasefire.

Iran is convinced the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with total Washington understanding and collaboration, making faith difficult to reestablish.

Negotiations Continues the Ultimate Solution

Araghchi stated: "It was not Iran that had fled dialogue; it was the United States and the Western nations that had always tried to enforce their will during the negotiations. Negotiations can still be active and remains the ultimate resolution to settle disagreements, but its requirements, guidelines and principles must be followed."

"Provided that they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of dignity and respect, they will receive a response in the identical language."

Repair and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the battle of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister claimed he was assured Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We acquired multiple understandings from this engagement; we have come to know our personal limitations and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He stated: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to destroy, remains in place. The facilities and machinery, if damaged, will be rebuilt; what is important is the will of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but failed to shatter. The Iranian people have grown stronger, more integrated, and more endorsing of the government and the state in the face of this assault."