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Tehran is ready to reinitiate atomic talks with the United States provided that it is treated with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has announced.

Abbas Araghchi stated only diplomacy worked, and shared fresh requests had originated from intermediaries to reopen discussions with the US government. He asserted Iran did not have unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran was not yet able to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to inspect bombed nuclear sites for protective measures.

Walking a Challenging Path

The foreign minister is walking a complex path since Iran wishes not to be seen to be proceeding from a situation of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful defensively and emotionally from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material on home soil that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Discussions Abruptly Ended

The earlier sessions of talks between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that culminated with the US president asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, European countries exercised their right to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Perfect Agreement Suggested

Tehran representatives stated they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was decided an local partnership with American involvement could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could function on Iranian soil, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Officials stated repeatedly they had reached agreement with the US representative the American negotiator only for the agreement to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Status

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be reintroduced in various formats if discussions reopen.

The US president last week claimed he had been getting signals that Iran sought to restart talks, but in private Iran's diplomats say they are not yet obtaining consistent overtures from the United States either directly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of non-responsiveness in the aftermath of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran says dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his speech to the forum, designed to portray the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of global regulations, Araghchi stated the two-week conflict revealed the clash could not be ended by combat operations. He stated the attacks commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were mounted with full US knowledge and collaboration, making faith hard to reestablish.

Negotiations Continues the Ultimate Resolution

The foreign minister said: "It was not Iran that had abandoned dialogue; it was America and the European states that had consistently tried to impose their will during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be alive and remains the ultimate resolution to address disagreements, but its standards, guidelines and tenets must be respected."

"Provided that they address to the citizens of Tehran with the language of respect and respect, they will receive a reply in the equivalent approach."

Recovery and Rebuilding

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of recovery and rebuilding, the foreign minister said he was certain Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been restored. We acquired multiple understandings from this engagement; we have discovered our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the enemy."

He continued: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to destroy, remains in place. The sites and gear, if damaged, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the resolve of the citizens of Tehran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but failed to break. The Iranian people have become more resilient, more united, and more backing of the leadership and the state in the wake of this attack."