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Iran is willing to restart atomic negotiations with Washington as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue worked, and revealed fresh requests had originated from go-betweens to restart negotiations with the US government. He claimed Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Tehran could not yet permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Walking a Difficult Path

Araghchi is navigating a complex path since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be operating from a situation of disadvantage, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more resilient militarily and emotionally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Prior Discussions Suddenly Ended

The previous five rounds of talks between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and hostile termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, attacked Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader claiming the locations had been eliminated. Afterward, European countries exercised their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a major impact.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Tehran representatives said they felt they had attained a "magic solution" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was decided an local partnership with American involvement could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Diplomats stated three times they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the agreement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".

Current Situation

Tehran representatives said the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if negotiations resume.

Trump last week stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to resume discussions, but in private Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet obtaining clear proposals from the United States either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been accused of non-responsiveness in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran states dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Stance

In his remarks to the conference, designed to depict the US as a controlling nation that misuses the concept of worldwide standards, Araghchi declared the two-week conflict revealed the clash could not be resolved by military means. He said the strikes started with a US demand for an total Iran submission and ended with an absolute demand for a ceasefire.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were executed with full US knowledge and collaboration, making confidence challenging to rebuild.

Diplomacy Stays the Primary Resolution

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had abandoned diplomacy; it was the United States and the western countries that had repeatedly tried to impose their demands during the talks. Negotiations can still be active and continues the final resolution to address disagreements, but its criteria, regulations and principles must be adhered to."

"If they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the tone of dignity and respect, they will get a response in the same language."

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is portrayed by Iranian officials as the conflict of restoration and recovery, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We gained many lessons from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the opponent."

He stated: "We successfully passed this war. Our nuclear technology, which they planned to eliminate, stays intact. The facilities and equipment, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the determination of the citizens of Tehran and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but were unable to shatter. The nation of Iran have developed stronger, more integrated, and more backing of the government and the nation in the wake of this invasion."