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Iran is ready to reinitiate atomic talks with the United States as long as it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue produced results, and disclosed new appeals had come from intermediaries to reopen negotiations with the Trump administration. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the UN nuclear inspectorate to access attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Navigating a Difficult Route

The foreign minister is walking a challenging path since Iran does not want be seen to be acting from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more powerful in military terms and emotionally from the Israeli-US attack on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material within its borders that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Negotiations Suddenly Concluded

The earlier sessions of negotiations between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and hostile termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a fortnight-long engagement that culminated with Donald Trump claiming the sites had been destroyed. Afterward, European countries employed their authority to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had achieved a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since local refinement would have persisted and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the discussions that Washington's technical specialists could work inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Representatives stated on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Current Position

Tehran representatives said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be reintroduced in certain ways if talks resume.

Trump in recent days claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but in private Iranian officials state they are not yet obtaining consistent overtures from Washington either explicitly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of passivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran states negotiations is not part of a spectacle.

Political Stance

In his speech to the conference, aimed to depict the US as a dominant force that abuses the notion of global regulations, Araghchi stated the 12-day war showed the dispute could not be ended by military means. He stated the strikes commenced with a Washington's ultimatum for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were mounted with total Washington understanding and collaboration, making faith hard to restore.

Dialogue Remains the Final Answer

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had abandoned dialogue; it was America and the western countries that had consistently sought to enforce their will during the discussions. Negotiations can still be active and continues the final resolution to resolve disputes, but its standards, rules and tenets must be followed."

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

Repair and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the battle of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister said he was certain Iran's defence capabilities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We acquired multiple understandings from this conflict; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the adversary."

He added: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to destroy, remains in place. The sites and equipment, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the will of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but failed to destroy. The nation of Iran have become more resilient, more united, and more backing of the leadership and the nation in the face of this attack."