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Tehran is prepared to resume atomic negotiations with Washington on condition that it is handled with "respect" and "respect", Iran's top diplomat has declared.

The Iranian diplomat stated only diplomacy was effective, and shared new appeals had come from go-betweens to restart talks with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran was not yet able to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to access struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Walking a Complex Course

The foreign minister is walking a complex route since Iran does not want be perceived to be acting from a situation of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more powerful in military terms and emotionally from the Israeli-US attack on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an inalienable right to enrich uranium domestically that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the impasse in the prior discussions.

Earlier Talks Abruptly Ended

The previous five rounds of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, targeted Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that culminated with Donald Trump declaring the sites had been destroyed. Following this, Western states employed their right to restore international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Suggested

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the nuclear fuel concern in prior discussions, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to claim victory since local refinement would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Officials claimed repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to disintegrate due to "spoilers in Washington".

Present Status

Iranian officials declared the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems very probable the offer could be revived in some form if negotiations resume.

Trump last week stated he had been getting signals that Iran sought to restart talks, but confidentially Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from Washington either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran states negotiations is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Position

In his address to the forum, aimed to depict the US as a hegemonic power that abuses the notion of global regulations, the foreign minister declared the two-week conflict demonstrated the clash could not be settled by combat operations. He stated the strikes began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with complete American awareness and cooperation, making faith challenging to rebuild.

Dialogue Continues the Primary Solution

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted dialogue; it was the United States and the Western nations that had repeatedly attempted to enforce their desires during the discussions. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the ultimate resolution to resolve conflicts, but its criteria, guidelines and tenets must be followed."

"If they talk to the Iranian people with the approach of dignity and honor, they will receive a response in the identical tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of recovery and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We learned multiple understandings from this conflict; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the enemy."

He stated: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to eliminate, remains in place. The sites and machinery, if destroyed, will be restored; what is essential is the will of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but were unable to break. The citizens of Tehran have developed stronger, more cohesive, and more backing of the government and the nation in the face of this assault."