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Tehran is prepared to resume atomic discussions with Washington on condition that it is approached with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has announced.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and revealed recent overtures had originated from intermediaries to restart negotiations with the US government. He claimed Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Iran could not yet authorize the global atomic watchdog to access struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Navigating a Complex Course

Araghchi is walking a challenging route since Iran does not want be perceived to be proceeding from a situation of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more resilient militarily and emotionally from the Israeli-US attack 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 primary cause of the impasse in the previous talks.

Prior Discussions Suddenly Concluded

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious end on 12 June when Israel, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that concluded with the US president asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, European countries used their privilege to restore international penalties, but Iran insists they have not had a significant effect.

Magic Solution Suggested

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "magic solution" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the talks that US nuclear scientists could function within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Diplomats asserted on multiple occasions they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Present Situation

Tehran representatives stated the partnership proposal was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the offer could be resurrected in various formats if negotiations resume.

The US president last week claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to reopen negotiations, but in private Tehran representatives claim they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from the United States either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been criticized of inactivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran says negotiations is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Stance

In his address to the forum, aimed to depict the US as a dominant force that abuses the idea of international law, Araghchi said the two-week conflict demonstrated the clash could not be resolved by military means. He asserted the assaults started with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is convinced the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with complete American awareness and cooperation, making faith difficult to reestablish.

Dialogue Remains the Ultimate Answer

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had deserted negotiations; it was America and the European states that had always tried to impose their desires during the discussions. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the primary solution to settle conflicts, but its requirements, guidelines and tenets must be respected."

"In case they speak to the nation of Iran with the language of respect and honor, they will get a response in the identical tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the struggle of repair and recovery, Araghchi said he was certain Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this engagement; we have come to know our personal limitations and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He stated: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to obliterate, continues to exist. The installations and equipment, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but failed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have developed more powerful, more cohesive, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the aftermath of this attack."