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Iran is ready to reinitiate atomic negotiations with the United States as long as it is treated with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said only diplomacy worked, and shared new appeals had come from intermediaries to restart negotiations with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran was not yet able to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to access attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Navigating a Challenging Route

Araghchi is navigating a difficult path since Iran wishes not to be seen to be acting from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful in military terms and mentally from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material on home soil that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Discussions Abruptly Ended

The prior phases of discussions between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and hostile end on 12 June when Israel, with US support, targeted Tehran's atomic facilities in a fortnight-long engagement that culminated with Donald Trump claiming the sites had been obliterated. Following this, European countries exercised their right to reinstate UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iranian officials stated they felt they had achieved a "ideal resolution" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was agreed an domestic cooperative with Washington's engagement could process nuclear material. Each party would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that American atomic experts could work on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Representatives stated three times they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Present Status

Iran's diplomats said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be reintroduced in various formats if talks restart.

Trump recently claimed he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but confidentially Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet receiving coherent offers from the United States either directly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of inactivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran states diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Standpoint

In his speech to the forum, intended to paint the US as a dominant force that abuses the idea of international law, Araghchi stated the two-week conflict demonstrated the conflict could not be settled by combat operations. He stated the assaults started with a Washington's ultimatum for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were mounted with full US knowledge and cooperation, making trust difficult to restore.

Negotiations Continues the Ultimate Solution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was America and the Western nations that had always sought to impose their will during the negotiations. Dialogue can still be active and stays the final resolution to resolve disputes, but its requirements, regulations and tenets must be respected."

"If they address to the nation of Iran with the approach of respect and respect, they will get a response in the same approach."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of restoration and rebuilding, Araghchi claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We gained numerous insights from this engagement; we have discovered our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He stated: "We effectively endured this war. Our nuclear technology, which they planned to eliminate, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the determination of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have become more powerful, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the administration and the nation in the face of this attack."