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Iran is willing to restart nuclear negotiations with Washington as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat declared solely negotiations produced results, and shared recent overtures had come from mediators to resume talks with the American leadership. He claimed Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Walking a Challenging Path

Araghchi is walking a challenging route since Iran does not want be perceived to be proceeding from a situation of vulnerability, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had emerged more powerful in military terms and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an inalienable right to process nuclear material within its borders that it will perpetually retain" – the primary cause of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Talks Abruptly Concluded

The previous five rounds of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, 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. Following this, EU nations exercised their right to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran maintains they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Tehran representatives stated they felt they had achieved a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the talks that US nuclear scientists could operate within Iranian territory, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Officials stated repeatedly they had secured an understanding with the US representative the American negotiator only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Present Position

Iranian officials stated the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the proposal could be reintroduced in various formats if negotiations reopen.

The American leader last week stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iran's diplomats say they are not yet getting coherent offers from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been accused of passivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran asserts diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Negotiating Standpoint

In his address to the conference, intended to portray the US as a hegemonic power that exploits the concept of worldwide standards, Araghchi said the 12-day war revealed the conflict could not be ended by armed force. He stated the assaults began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the first strikes by Israel were carried out with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making confidence hard to rebuild.

Diplomacy Stays the Final Resolution

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had always sought to dictate their desires during the discussions. Dialogue can still be viable and remains the ultimate resolution to resolve disputes, but its requirements, regulations and fundamentals must be respected."

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

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the battle of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister said he was assured Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been restored. We learned multiple understandings from this war; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He continued: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to destroy, continues to exist. The installations and machinery, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is important is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but failed to destroy. The nation of Iran have become stronger, more integrated, and more endorsing of the leadership and the nation in the aftermath of this assault."