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Tehran is ready to restart nuclear discussions with Washington provided that it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

Abbas Araghchi declared solely negotiations was effective, and shared recent overtures had been made by go-betweens to restart talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Tehran was not yet able to permit the UN nuclear inspectorate to visit bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Walking a Difficult Course

Araghchi is walking a challenging route since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more resilient militarily and mentally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was talking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to enrich uranium domestically that it will always maintain" – the primary cause of the impasse in the previous talks.

Previous Talks Unexpectedly Terminated

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, struck Iranian nuclear sites in a fortnight-long engagement that concluded with the US president claiming the facilities had been eliminated. Following this, EU nations employed their right to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Magic Solution Suggested

Iranian officials stated they felt they had achieved a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was agreed an Iran-based consortium with American involvement could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the talks that American atomic experts could operate inside Iran, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Diplomats stated on multiple occasions they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the arrangement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Position

Tehran representatives said the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems highly likely the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if negotiations resume.

The US president recently stated he had been getting signals that Iran desired to resume discussions, but in private Iran's diplomats say they are not yet getting clear proposals from Washington either explicitly 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 non-responsiveness in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran says dialogue is not part of a show.

Political Position

In his remarks to the conference, aimed to paint the US as a hegemonic power that misuses the idea of global regulations, the foreign minister stated the 12-day war revealed the clash could not be resolved by combat operations. He stated the assaults began with a Washington's ultimatum for an unconditional Iranian surrender and ended with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

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

Diplomacy Continues the Ultimate Solution

Araghchi declared: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned diplomacy; it was America and the western countries that had always attempted to impose their demands during the negotiations. Negotiations can still be viable and remains the ultimate answer to resolve disputes, but its criteria, guidelines and fundamentals must be adhered to."

"Provided that they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the language of respect and respect, they will receive a response in the equivalent language."

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the battle of restoration and recovery, Araghchi claimed he was assured Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We gained numerous insights from this conflict; we have identified our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He added: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to destroy, remains in place. The installations and machinery, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the will of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but failed to break. The Iranian people have developed more powerful, more integrated, and more endorsing of the leadership and the nation in the face of this attack."