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Tehran is willing to restart atomic negotiations with the United States as long as it is treated with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has stated.

Abbas Araghchi stated only diplomacy worked, and shared new appeals had been made by go-betweens to resume negotiations with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Tehran could not yet permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Walking a Complex Course

Araghchi is navigating a complex course since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be proceeding from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful militarily and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites 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 primary cause of the impasse in the prior discussions.

Earlier Talks Suddenly Concluded

The earlier sessions of negotiations between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that ended with Donald Trump asserting the locations had been destroyed. Following this, Western states used their privilege to reinstate UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had attained a "magic solution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was agreed an Iran-based consortium with US participation could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to declare success since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could operate inside Iran, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Representatives claimed repeatedly they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Existing Position

Iran's diplomats said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the suggestion could be revived in some form if negotiations resume.

The US president last week stated he had been getting signals that Iran desired to resume discussions, but in private Iranian officials state they are not yet receiving coherent offers from America either explicitly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of non-responsiveness in the aftermath of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran says dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his remarks to the gathering, designed to portray the US as a controlling nation that abuses the notion of worldwide standards, the foreign minister stated the 12-day war demonstrated the clash could not be settled by military means. He asserted the strikes commenced with a Washington's ultimatum for an total Iran submission and concluded with an unconditional call for a ceasefire.

Iran is certain the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with full US knowledge and cooperation, making trust hard to reestablish.

Dialogue Continues the Primary Solution

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had fled dialogue; it was America and the European states that had repeatedly attempted to dictate their will during the negotiations. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the final answer to address conflicts, but its criteria, rules and tenets must be adhered to."

"In case they address to the nation of Iran with the language of dignity and honor, they will obtain a reply in the equivalent language."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the conflict of repair and reconstruction, the foreign minister stated he was assured Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We acquired many lessons from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He continued: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to destroy, stays intact. The facilities and gear, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the determination of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but were unable to break. The citizens of Tehran have developed more powerful, more cohesive, and more backing of the leadership and the country in the aftermath of this assault."