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Tehran is ready to reinitiate atomic discussions with the United States on condition that it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has announced.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and disclosed fresh requests had been made by mediators to reopen discussions with the US government. He asserted Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Walking a Difficult Path

The foreign minister is treading a complex route since Iran wishes not to appear to be acting from a position of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful in military terms and mentally from the coordinated strike on its enrichment centers in June.

He was addressing at a security conference in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium domestically that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the impasse in the previous talks.

Earlier Talks Suddenly Concluded

The prior phases of discussions between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that ended with the American leader asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, Western states used their authority to reinstate UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was entirely non-military.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that American atomic experts could function inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the consortium proposal. Representatives asserted three times they had achieved a deal with the US representative Steve Witkoff only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Present Position

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be resurrected in certain ways if discussions reopen.

The American leader recently claimed he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to resume discussions, but confidentially Tehran representatives state they are not yet getting clear proposals from Washington either directly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of passivity in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran states dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Stance

In his speech to the gathering, designed to portray the US as a hegemonic power that exploits the notion of international law, Araghchi stated the two-week conflict demonstrated the clash could not be ended by combat operations. He said the strikes commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is certain the first strikes by Israel were executed with complete American awareness and coordination, making confidence hard to rebuild.

Diplomacy Stays the Primary Solution

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the western countries that had always tried to enforce their demands during the discussions. Negotiations can still be alive and stays the final answer to settle disagreements, but its criteria, regulations and tenets must be followed."

"Provided that they speak to the nation of Iran with the approach of dignity and respect, they will get a answer in the identical language."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of repair and recovery, Araghchi stated he was assured Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We gained multiple understandings from this war; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He continued: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to eliminate, continues to exist. The installations and machinery, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the determination of the citizens of Tehran and then the unity of the country that they sought to undermine, but were unable to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have grown stronger, more integrated, and more endorsing of the administration and the state in the aftermath of this attack."