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Iran is willing to reinitiate nuclear talks with Washington as long as it is approached with "dignity" and "respect", Iran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue worked, and shared new appeals had originated from go-betweens to reopen talks with the US government. He said Iran did not have undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran could not yet authorize the global atomic watchdog to access struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Walking a Challenging Path

Araghchi is navigating a challenging route since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a situation of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more powerful in military terms and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium domestically that it will never give up" – the main reason of the impasse in the previous talks.

Prior Discussions Unexpectedly Concluded

The previous five rounds of discussions between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and acrimonious termination on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, attacked Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader claiming the sites had been eliminated. Subsequently, Western states exercised their right to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iranian officials claimed they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with US participation could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that US nuclear scientists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Officials claimed repeatedly they had secured an understanding with the US representative the American negotiator only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "spoilers in Washington".

Existing Position

Iranian officials stated the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the offer could be reintroduced in some form if negotiations resume.

The US president last week claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but confidentially Tehran representatives say they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of passivity in the face of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran states diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the forum, aimed to paint the US as a hegemonic power that abuses the concept of international law, Araghchi said the two-week conflict demonstrated the clash could not be settled by combat operations. He asserted the strikes began with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were executed with full US knowledge and cooperation, making faith difficult to restore.

Negotiations Remains the Final Answer

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently sought to dictate their desires during the discussions. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the primary answer to settle disagreements, but its criteria, regulations and principles must be respected."

"In case they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the tone of dignity and honor, they will get a answer in the same tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the battle of recovery and rebuilding, the foreign minister said he was certain Iran's security strengths "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been reestablished. We gained numerous insights from this conflict; we have identified our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He stated: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to eliminate, stays intact. The installations and equipment, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the will of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but did not succeed to break. The citizens of Tehran have developed more powerful, more cohesive, and more supportive of the government and the nation in the wake of this attack."