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Iran is willing to restart nuclear discussions with the United States as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "respect", Iran's top diplomat has declared.

Abbas Araghchi stated solely negotiations worked, and revealed fresh requests had come from intermediaries to restart talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to access attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Walking a Complex Path

Araghchi is navigating a difficult path since Iran aims to avoid appear to be proceeding from a stance of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful in military terms and emotionally 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 "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will never give up" – the main reason of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Negotiations Abruptly Terminated

The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that ended with the US president asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, Western states used their right to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a significant effect.

Magic Solution Offered

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was decided an local partnership with US participation could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the talks that American atomic experts could work on Iranian soil, but that was a natural consequence of the cooperative offer. Diplomats stated repeatedly they had reached agreement with the US representative the American negotiator only for the deal to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Current Situation

Iran's diplomats declared the partnership proposal was now withdrawn, but it seems highly likely the offer could be resurrected in various formats if discussions restart.

The US president recently claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to restart talks, but in private Tehran representatives claim they are not yet getting coherent offers from the United States either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been accused of inactivity in the aftermath of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Stance

In his address to the conference, aimed to portray the US as a dominant force that exploits the concept of global regulations, the foreign minister said the two-week conflict showed the dispute could not be settled by military means. He stated the attacks started with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were mounted with total Washington understanding and collaboration, making trust difficult to restore.

Dialogue Continues the Final Answer

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had deserted diplomacy; it was the United States and the European states that had always attempted to enforce their will during the talks. Diplomacy can still be viable and stays the primary resolution to settle conflicts, but its criteria, regulations and fundamentals must be respected."

"Provided that they address to the Iranian people with the tone of respect and respect, they will get a reply in the equivalent approach."

Repair and Recovery

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the battle of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister claimed he was assured Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We gained multiple understandings from this war; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the enemy."

He stated: "We effectively endured this war. Our nuclear technology, which they planned to destroy, stays intact. The facilities and equipment, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the determination of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have developed stronger, more cohesive, and more backing of the leadership and the state in the face of this invasion."