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Tehran is prepared to resume nuclear talks with the United States on condition that it is approached with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said solely negotiations was effective, and shared recent overtures had been made by intermediaries to resume discussions with the US government. He said Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the global atomic watchdog to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Navigating a Difficult Course

Araghchi is navigating a challenging course since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be proceeding from a position of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful militarily and mentally from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material on home soil that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the impasse in the previous talks.

Prior Discussions Suddenly Terminated

The prior phases of negotiations between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and bitter termination on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that concluded with the American leader declaring the locations had been eliminated. Subsequently, EU nations employed their authority to reimpose international penalties, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an domestic cooperative with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could operate within Iranian territory, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Officials stated repeatedly they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".

Present Status

Iran's diplomats declared the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the offer could be reintroduced in certain ways if discussions reopen.

The US president last week claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to resume discussions, but in private Iran's diplomats state they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from America either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been charged of passivity in the face of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran states negotiations is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his speech to the gathering, intended to portray the US as a dominant force that exploits the idea of international law, Araghchi said the 12-day war showed the clash could not be ended by armed force. He said the strikes started with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a ceasefire.

Iran is assured the first strikes by Israel were carried out with complete American awareness and cooperation, making trust hard to reestablish.

Diplomacy Continues the Primary Answer

The foreign minister declared: "It was not Iran that had deserted diplomacy; it was America and the European states that had repeatedly sought to impose their desires during the discussions. Negotiations can still be viable and remains the final solution to address conflicts, but its standards, rules and tenets must be followed."

"Provided that they address to the nation of Iran with the approach of respect and respect, they will obtain a answer in the identical tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the battle of restoration and reconstruction, Araghchi said he was certain Iran's defence capabilities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We learned numerous insights from this engagement; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He continued: "We effectively endured this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the resolve of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they targeted, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have grown more powerful, more united, and more endorsing of the government and the nation in the face of this invasion."