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Tehran is ready to resume nuclear talks with the United States on condition that it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi stated exclusively dialogue worked, and revealed new appeals had come from go-betweens to reopen negotiations with the American leadership. He asserted Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to permit the global atomic watchdog to visit struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Navigating a Complex Path

Araghchi is walking a challenging path since Iran wishes not to appear to be proceeding from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful militarily and emotionally from the Israeli-US attack on its nuclear sites in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material domestically that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Talks Unexpectedly Terminated

The earlier sessions of talks between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile termination on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that ended with Donald Trump asserting the sites had been obliterated. Afterward, EU nations used their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a significant effect.

Magic Solution Offered

Tehran representatives claimed they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in prior discussions, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with American involvement could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was entirely non-military.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that US nuclear scientists could operate within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Officials claimed repeatedly they had achieved a deal with the US representative the US official only for the deal to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Current Position

Iran's diplomats stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the offer could be revived in some form if discussions resume.

The American leader in recent days stated he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to restart talks, but confidentially Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from America either straightforwardly 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 charged of non-responsiveness in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran asserts negotiations is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the forum, intended to paint the US as a controlling nation that misuses the notion of worldwide standards, Araghchi declared the two-week conflict revealed the dispute could not be resolved by combat operations. He asserted the assaults started with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an complete request for a ceasefire.

Iran is assured the first strikes by Israel were mounted with total Washington understanding and coordination, making faith difficult to restore.

Dialogue Remains the Final Resolution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had deserted dialogue; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently sought to dictate their will during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be active and continues the ultimate resolution to settle disagreements, but its requirements, regulations and fundamentals must be adhered to."

"Provided that they address to the Iranian people with the tone of respect and respect, they will obtain a answer in the identical language."

Restoration and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the conflict of repair and reconstruction, the foreign minister said he was certain Iran's security strengths "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We gained multiple understandings from this war; we have identified our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He continued: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to obliterate, stays intact. The sites and machinery, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is important is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but failed to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have become more powerful, more united, and more supportive of the leadership and the nation in the face of this assault."