Tehran States It Could Resume US Nuclear Discussions if Handled with 'Respect' and 'Respect'

Iran is willing to restart atomic discussions with Washington as long as it is approached with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue produced results, and disclosed fresh requests had been made by intermediaries to resume discussions with the American leadership. He claimed Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Walking a Difficult Path

Araghchi is walking a challenging path since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a stance of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful defensively and mentally from the Israeli-US attack on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material domestically that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Negotiations Unexpectedly Concluded

The earlier sessions of negotiations between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile end on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that concluded with the American leader claiming the sites had been obliterated. Afterward, Western states used their right to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Tehran representatives said they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was decided an local partnership with US participation could process nuclear material. Each party would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the discussions that American atomic experts could operate inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats asserted repeatedly they had reached agreement with the US representative the US official only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Present Position

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be revived in some form if talks resume.

The US president last week stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to resume discussions, but in private Tehran representatives claim they are not yet getting consistent overtures from America either explicitly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of non-responsiveness in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran asserts negotiations is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Stance

In his speech to the conference, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the concept of international law, the foreign minister said the 12-day war demonstrated the conflict could not be ended by military means. He said the strikes started with a Washington's ultimatum for an total Iran submission and culminated with an unconditional call for a ceasefire.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were mounted with full US knowledge and coordination, making confidence hard to reestablish.

Diplomacy Continues the Primary Solution

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the Western nations that had consistently sought to impose their desires during the talks. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the primary solution to address disagreements, but its standards, guidelines and fundamentals must be followed."

"In case they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the language of respect and respect, they will get a response in the equivalent tone."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister said he was confident Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been rebuilt. We learned multiple understandings from this engagement; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the opponent."

He continued: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to destroy, stays intact. The facilities and gear, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the unity of the country that they targeted, but failed to shatter. The nation of Iran have become more resilient, more cohesive, and more backing of the administration and the nation in the aftermath of this attack."