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Tehran is willing to restart atomic negotiations with Washington provided that it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has stated.

Abbas Araghchi stated exclusively dialogue was effective, and disclosed recent overtures had come from go-betweens to restart negotiations with the American leadership. He asserted Iran did not have undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the UN nuclear inspectorate to access struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Walking a Difficult Path

Araghchi is treading a complex route since Iran wishes not to appear to be acting from a situation of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more resilient defensively and emotionally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was addressing at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel within its borders that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Talks Abruptly Concluded

The prior phases of negotiations between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that concluded with Donald Trump claiming the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, Western states used their privilege to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran asserts they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Suggested

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was decided an local partnership with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since local refinement would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's nuclear programme was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the partnership suggestion. Officials claimed three times they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Current Situation

Iran's diplomats declared the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the offer could be resurrected in some form if discussions reopen.

The US president last week said he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to resume discussions, but privately Tehran representatives say they are not yet getting coherent offers from America either straightforwardly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been accused of inactivity in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran states negotiations is not part of a performance.

Political Position

In his speech to the forum, designed to depict the US as a dominant force that exploits the concept of global regulations, Araghchi declared the two-week conflict demonstrated the clash could not be ended by combat operations. He said the assaults started with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were carried out with complete American awareness and collaboration, making confidence challenging to reestablish.

Diplomacy Continues the Ultimate Resolution

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had deserted dialogue; it was the United States and the Western nations that had repeatedly tried to impose their demands during the talks. Dialogue can still be alive and continues the final resolution to settle disagreements, but its standards, regulations and principles must be respected."

"If they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of dignity and honor, they will get a response in the equivalent language."

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of restoration and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We acquired numerous insights from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the opponent."

He stated: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to eliminate, remains in place. The facilities and equipment, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but did not succeed to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have become more powerful, more united, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the face of this invasion."