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

The Iranian diplomat stated solely negotiations worked, and revealed new appeals had come from intermediaries to resume talks with the US government. He asserted Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Iran could not yet authorize the global atomic watchdog to visit attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Walking a Challenging Path

The foreign minister is treading a complex route since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be operating from a position of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more resilient defensively and emotionally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Talks Suddenly Terminated

The previous five rounds of talks between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile end on 12 June when Israel, with US support, targeted Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that concluded with the American leader asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, EU nations exercised their privilege to restore international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Proposed

Tehran representatives said they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in prior discussions, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that US nuclear scientists could operate inside Iran, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Representatives stated three times they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the deal to collapse due to "detractors in America".

Existing Position

Iranian officials stated the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be reintroduced in various formats if talks resume.

The US president in recent days claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but in private Iranian officials claim they are not yet getting clear proposals from Washington either directly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, 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 Tehran asserts dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Position

In his speech to the forum, designed to portray the US as a controlling nation that misuses the notion of global regulations, the foreign minister said the two-week conflict demonstrated the conflict could not be ended by armed force. He asserted the strikes started with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is certain the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making trust hard to rebuild.

Negotiations Stays the Ultimate Solution

Araghchi said: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned negotiations; it was America and the western countries that had always attempted to impose their demands during the talks. Diplomacy can still be alive and continues the final answer to resolve disputes, but its requirements, rules and principles must be followed."

"In case they speak to the nation of Iran with the tone of dignity and respect, they will obtain a reply in the identical tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of repair and recovery, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been restored. We gained numerous insights from this engagement; we have identified our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to obliterate, remains in place. The facilities and machinery, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is important is the determination of the citizens of Tehran and then the unity of the country that they targeted, but did not succeed to shatter. The Iranian people have become more resilient, more cohesive, and more supportive of the government and the nation in the wake of this invasion."