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Tehran is prepared to reinitiate nuclear negotiations with the United States as long as it is approached with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi declared solely negotiations produced results, and shared recent overtures had come from mediators to restart talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Walking a Difficult Route

Araghchi is treading a challenging path since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be acting from a stance of disadvantage, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more powerful defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its atomic facilities in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium on home soil that it will never give up" – the main reason of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Talks Unexpectedly Ended

The earlier sessions of discussions between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, attacked Iranian nuclear sites in a 12-day war that concluded with the American leader asserting the locations had been eliminated. Subsequently, Western states used their privilege to reimpose international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Perfect Agreement Proposed

Iranian officials said they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was agreed an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could refine atomic fuel. Each party would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the talks that US nuclear scientists could function inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Representatives asserted repeatedly they had secured an understanding with the US representative the US official only for the agreement to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Present Position

Iranian officials said the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if discussions reopen.

The American leader in recent days claimed he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but confidentially Iran's diplomats state they are not yet getting coherent offers from the United States either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been criticized of passivity in the aftermath of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a show.

Diplomatic Position

In his remarks to the conference, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that misuses the concept of global regulations, the foreign minister said the 12-day war revealed the dispute could not be resolved by combat operations. He said the assaults commenced with a Washington's ultimatum for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an absolute demand for a ceasefire.

Iran is convinced the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with full US knowledge and cooperation, making trust challenging to rebuild.

Negotiations Stays the Final Answer

Araghchi said: "Tehran was not the one that had fled negotiations; it was America and the European states that had repeatedly sought to dictate their desires during the talks. Dialogue can still be alive and remains the primary answer to settle conflicts, but its requirements, rules and fundamentals must be respected."

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

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the battle of recovery and rebuilding, Araghchi claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We gained numerous insights from this war; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the weaknesses of the opponent."

He stated: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to eliminate, continues to exist. The installations and equipment, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the will of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but were unable to break. The Iranian people have grown stronger, more cohesive, and more supportive of the leadership and the nation in the aftermath of this assault."