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Tehran is willing to restart atomic negotiations with the United States provided that it is treated with "respect" and "respect", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue worked, and revealed new appeals had been made by go-betweens to restart discussions with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran did not have unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran could not yet allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to inspect struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Navigating a Difficult Path

Araghchi is treading a difficult path since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be proceeding from a position of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful defensively and emotionally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material within its borders that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the stalemate in the previous talks.

Earlier Talks Abruptly Terminated

The prior phases of discussions between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile end on 12 June when Israel, with US support, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that culminated with the US president declaring the sites had been destroyed. Subsequently, Western states exercised their right to restore international penalties, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Tehran representatives said they felt they had reached a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since local refinement would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was entirely non-military.

It had not been decided in the talks that American atomic experts could operate inside Iran, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Officials claimed repeatedly they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the agreement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Situation

Iran's diplomats stated the consortium offer was now off the table, but it seems quite possible the offer could be resurrected in some form if negotiations reopen.

Trump recently said he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to reopen negotiations, but privately Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet getting coherent offers from the United States either directly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of inactivity in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran states negotiations is not part of a performance.

Political Standpoint

In his remarks to the conference, designed to portray the US as a dominant force that misuses the notion of international law, the foreign minister stated the two-week conflict demonstrated the conflict could not be ended by armed force. He said the assaults commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is certain the first strikes by Israel were carried out with complete American awareness and cooperation, making trust hard to reestablish.

Dialogue Remains the Final Answer

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had repeatedly sought to impose their will during the discussions. Negotiations can still be viable and remains the final answer to address conflicts, but its standards, guidelines and principles must be respected."

"In case they address to the nation of Iran with the language of respect and respect, they will obtain a answer in the same approach."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the struggle of repair and recovery, Araghchi stated he was confident Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been rebuilt. We learned numerous insights from this war; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the enemy."

He stated: "We effectively endured this war. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to eliminate, stays intact. The facilities and machinery, if eliminated, will be restored; what is essential is the resolve of the citizens of Tehran and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have grown stronger, more united, and more backing of the leadership and the nation in the face of this invasion."