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Iran is ready to restart nuclear talks with the United States as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "respect", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

Abbas Araghchi stated solely negotiations was effective, and disclosed new appeals had come from go-betweens to restart negotiations with the US government. He said Iran did not have undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Walking a Difficult Path

Araghchi is walking a difficult path since Iran wishes not to appear to be operating from a position of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful militarily and psychologically from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an inalienable right to enrich uranium domestically that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Discussions Suddenly Concluded

The earlier sessions of negotiations between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Iranian nuclear sites in a 12-day war that culminated with Donald Trump declaring the sites had been destroyed. Subsequently, Western states employed their right to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Tehran representatives claimed they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with Washington's engagement could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to assert triumph since local refinement would have continued and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could work within Iranian territory, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats stated repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the deal to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Present Status

Iranian officials said the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be resurrected in some form if negotiations restart.

The US president last week stated he had been getting signals that Iran sought to restart talks, but in private Iranian officials say they are not yet receiving clear proposals from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been accused of passivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran states negotiations is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the forum, aimed to depict the US as a hegemonic power that misuses the notion of global regulations, Araghchi declared the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the conflict could not be resolved by armed force. He said the attacks started with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is convinced the initial Israeli attacks were executed with full US knowledge and coordination, making faith difficult to restore.

Dialogue Remains the Ultimate Resolution

The foreign minister stated: "Tehran was not the one that had fled diplomacy; it was America and the Western nations that had consistently tried to enforce their will during the negotiations. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the final resolution to settle disagreements, but its standards, rules and principles must be respected."

"If they talk to the nation of Iran with the language of respect and honor, they will receive a response in the identical approach."

Repair and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Iranian officials as the conflict of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's security strengths "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We learned multiple understandings from this engagement; we have come to know our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He continued: "We managed to survive this war. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to destroy, remains in place. The facilities and machinery, if damaged, will be restored; what is crucial is the determination of the citizens of Tehran and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but failed to destroy. The nation of Iran have developed more powerful, more united, and more backing of the leadership and the country in the wake of this assault."