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Tehran is ready to restart nuclear talks with Washington as long as it is approached with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

The Iranian diplomat declared exclusively dialogue worked, and shared recent overtures had come from intermediaries to restart discussions with the US government. He asserted Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Iran could not yet authorize the UN nuclear inspectorate to visit bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Navigating a Difficult Route

The foreign minister is walking a complex path since Iran does not want be seen to be acting from a stance of vulnerability, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had come out more powerful in military terms 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 "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material domestically that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the impasse in the previous talks.

Previous Discussions Suddenly Concluded

The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the US president declaring the facilities had been obliterated. Following this, EU nations exercised their privilege to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iranian officials said they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was agreed an Iran-based consortium with US participation could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was entirely non-military.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that American atomic experts could work within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Representatives claimed on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with the US representative Steve Witkoff only for the agreement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Status

Iranian officials stated the partnership proposal was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the proposal could be reintroduced in various formats if negotiations reopen.

The US president last week said he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Iranian officials state they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from Washington either directly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been accused of inactivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran says diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Political Standpoint

In his remarks to the conference, designed to portray the US as a controlling nation that exploits the notion of worldwide standards, Araghchi declared the two-week conflict revealed the conflict could not be settled by armed force. He asserted the assaults started with a US demand for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an absolute demand for a ceasefire.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with total Washington understanding and coordination, making trust challenging to rebuild.

Dialogue Continues the Primary Answer

Araghchi stated: "It was not Iran that had deserted dialogue; it was America and the western countries that had repeatedly tried to enforce their desires during the talks. Negotiations can still be viable and remains the final resolution to address disputes, but its requirements, guidelines and fundamentals must be adhered to."

"If they talk to the nation of Iran with the language of dignity and respect, they will receive a answer in the same language."

Restoration and Reconstruction

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the conflict of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's defence capabilities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We acquired multiple understandings from this war; we have discovered our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He added: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to obliterate, stays intact. The installations and machinery, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the will of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they targeted, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have become more resilient, more integrated, and more supportive of the leadership and the nation in the aftermath of this assault."