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Iran is prepared to resume atomic negotiations with Washington as long as it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi said solely negotiations was effective, and disclosed new appeals had originated from go-betweens to resume negotiations with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to access attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Navigating a Challenging Path

The foreign minister is navigating a difficult route since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be operating from a situation of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel within its borders that it will perpetually retain" – the main reason of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Discussions Abruptly Ended

The previous five rounds of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a 12-day war that culminated with Donald Trump claiming the locations had been destroyed. Subsequently, Western states used their right to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Perfect Agreement Suggested

Iran's diplomats claimed they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Each party would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's atomic project was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that American atomic experts could function inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Representatives stated three times they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the arrangement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".

Current Status

Iranian officials said the consortium offer was now off the table, but it seems very probable the proposal could be revived in certain ways if talks resume.

The US president recently said he had been getting signals that Iran desired to resume discussions, but privately Iranian officials claim they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from America either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of passivity in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran says negotiations is not part of a performance.

Political Standpoint

In his address to the forum, intended to portray the US as a hegemonic power that exploits the notion of global regulations, Araghchi declared the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the clash could not be settled by combat operations. He asserted the strikes began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an absolute demand for a truce.

Iran is convinced the initial Israeli attacks were executed with total Washington understanding and collaboration, making confidence difficult to restore.

Negotiations Remains the Primary Solution

The foreign minister declared: "It was not Iran that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the western countries that had repeatedly sought to enforce their demands during the discussions. Negotiations can still be viable and continues the primary answer to resolve disagreements, but its standards, regulations and fundamentals must be respected."

"In case they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the language of respect and honor, they will obtain a response in the identical approach."

Restoration and Recovery

In what is described by Iranian officials as the battle of recovery and reconstruction, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been rebuilt. We gained many lessons from this conflict; we have discovered our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our atomic expertise, which they planned to obliterate, stays intact. The sites and gear, if eliminated, will be restored; what is essential is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have grown stronger, more united, and more supportive of the administration and the nation in the face of this invasion."