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Tehran is prepared to reinitiate nuclear talks with Washington as long as it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has stated.

The Iranian diplomat declared solely negotiations produced results, and revealed new appeals had originated from mediators to restart negotiations with the American leadership. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the global atomic watchdog to access bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Navigating a Complex Route

Araghchi is walking a challenging path since Iran aims to avoid be perceived to be proceeding from a stance of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more powerful militarily and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an inalienable right to enrich uranium domestically that it will perpetually retain" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the previous talks.

Previous Discussions Unexpectedly Ended

The earlier sessions of discussions between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the US president declaring the facilities had been destroyed. Afterward, Western states employed their right to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Magic Solution Proposed

Iranian officials said they felt they had attained a "magic solution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was settled an local partnership with US participation could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the discussions that US nuclear scientists could function on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Representatives claimed on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat Steve Witkoff only for the deal to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Current Situation

Iran's diplomats stated the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be resurrected in some form if talks reopen.

The US president in recent days claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Iran's diplomats say they are not yet receiving clear proposals from Washington either directly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of passivity in the face of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the conference, designed to depict the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister stated the fortnight-long engagement showed the conflict could not be ended by military means. He asserted the strikes began with a US demand for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were executed with complete American awareness and collaboration, making confidence hard to reestablish.

Dialogue Remains the Primary Answer

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had fled diplomacy; it was the United States and the Western nations that had repeatedly sought to impose their desires during the talks. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the primary solution to address conflicts, but its requirements, regulations and tenets must be respected."

"If they speak to the Iranian people with the language of dignity and honor, they will receive a response in the same language."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Tehran representatives as the conflict of restoration and recovery, Araghchi stated he was assured Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We gained numerous insights from this engagement; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He continued: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they planned to obliterate, stays intact. The sites and machinery, if destroyed, will be restored; what is important is the resolve of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they aimed at, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have developed stronger, more united, and more supportive of the government and the nation in the aftermath of this invasion."