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Tehran is willing to resume nuclear talks with the United States as long as it is treated with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

The Iranian diplomat said solely negotiations worked, and shared fresh requests had come from intermediaries to resume discussions with the American leadership. He claimed Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to permit the global atomic watchdog to access struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Navigating a Complex Course

The foreign minister is treading a challenging course since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be operating from a situation of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen stronger defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will always maintain" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Discussions Abruptly Ended

The earlier sessions of talks between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a 12-day war that ended with the US president declaring the locations had been destroyed. Subsequently, European countries used their right to reimpose international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was agreed an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could process nuclear material. Each party would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been decided in the talks that American atomic experts could work within Iranian territory, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Representatives stated on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Position

Tehran representatives said the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems very probable the proposal could be revived in some form if talks restart.

The American leader last week stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to resume discussions, but in private Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet receiving coherent offers from America either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran asserts dialogue is not part of a show.

Political Standpoint

In his remarks to the gathering, aimed to paint the US as a hegemonic power that abuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister said the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the dispute could not be ended by military means. He said the strikes commenced 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 carried out with complete American awareness and cooperation, making faith difficult to reestablish.

Diplomacy Stays the Final Solution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had deserted diplomacy; it was the United States and the Western nations that had repeatedly tried to dictate their desires during the talks. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the ultimate resolution to settle disputes, but its requirements, guidelines and fundamentals must be followed."

"If they address to the Iranian people with the tone of dignity and respect, they will receive a reply in the identical approach."

Recovery and Recovery

In what is described by Iranian officials as the struggle of repair and rebuilding, Araghchi said he was certain Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been rebuilt. We acquired numerous insights from this engagement; we have come to know our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the adversary."

He continued: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and machinery, if damaged, will be restored; what is crucial is the determination of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but were unable to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have grown more powerful, more integrated, and more supportive of the administration and the nation in the wake of this attack."