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Iran is ready to resume atomic talks with Washington provided that it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said solely negotiations worked, and disclosed fresh requests had been made by intermediaries to restart negotiations with the US government. He claimed Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to access bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Navigating a Difficult Course

The foreign minister is navigating a complex course since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be proceeding from a position of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more resilient in military terms and mentally from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an inalienable right to process nuclear material on home soil that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Talks Unexpectedly Ended

The prior phases of negotiations between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious end on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the American leader declaring the sites had been destroyed. Afterward, European countries used their right to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "magic solution" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Representatives asserted repeatedly they had secured an understanding with the US representative Steve Witkoff only for the arrangement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Present Status

Iran's diplomats stated the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be reintroduced in some form if negotiations restart.

The US president in recent days claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Iran's diplomats say they are not yet getting consistent overtures from America either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been charged of passivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran says dialogue is not part of a performance.

Negotiating Standpoint

In his remarks to the conference, intended to paint the US as a controlling nation that exploits the concept of global regulations, the foreign minister declared the two-week conflict revealed the clash could not be ended by armed force. He asserted the strikes began with a Washington's ultimatum for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with complete American awareness and collaboration, making faith hard to restore.

Negotiations Remains the Ultimate Resolution

Araghchi stated: "Tehran was not the one that had fled diplomacy; it was America and the European states that had repeatedly sought to enforce their desires during the discussions. Diplomacy can still be active and stays the final solution to address disagreements, but its criteria, rules and principles must be followed."

"In case they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of respect and honor, they will get a reply in the identical tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of restoration and rebuilding, Araghchi claimed he was certain Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We acquired many lessons from this engagement; we have discovered our personal limitations and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He continued: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our nuclear technology, which they intended to destroy, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is important is the will of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have developed more powerful, more united, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the aftermath of this attack."