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Tehran is ready to reinitiate atomic negotiations with Washington on condition that it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and revealed fresh requests had been made by mediators to restart talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to allow the global atomic watchdog to inspect bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Walking a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is walking a complex course since Iran does not want appear to be operating from a position of disadvantage, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more resilient in military terms and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its enrichment centers in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel within its borders that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Negotiations Suddenly Concluded

The prior phases of discussions between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious end on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the American leader asserting the facilities had been destroyed. Following this, EU nations employed their authority to restore global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iranian officials stated they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was agreed an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been agreed in the discussions that American atomic experts could operate within Iranian territory, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Diplomats stated three times they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the arrangement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Status

Iranian officials declared the partnership proposal was now withdrawn, but it seems highly likely the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if talks resume.

The US president in recent days stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Tehran representatives say they are not yet getting coherent offers from Washington either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been accused of inactivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Position

In his address to the gathering, aimed to depict the US as a hegemonic power that misuses the concept of international law, the foreign minister stated the 12-day war demonstrated the clash could not be ended by combat operations. He asserted the assaults started with a US demand for an total Iran submission and concluded with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making confidence hard to reestablish.

Diplomacy Remains the Primary Solution

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted diplomacy; it was America and the European states that had always sought to enforce their demands during the talks. Negotiations can still be viable and stays the primary answer to resolve disputes, but its standards, regulations and fundamentals must be followed."

"If they address to the nation of Iran with the language of dignity and respect, they will obtain a answer in the identical approach."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the conflict of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister stated he was assured Iran's defence capabilities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We gained numerous insights from this war; we have discovered our personal limitations and the shortcomings of the opponent."

He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to obliterate, stays intact. The sites and equipment, if damaged, will be restored; what is crucial is the will of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to destroy. The Iranian people have become more powerful, more integrated, and more endorsing of the administration and the nation in the face of this attack."