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Tehran is prepared to resume nuclear talks with the United States as long as it is handled with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

The Iranian diplomat declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and disclosed fresh requests had originated from intermediaries to resume talks with the US government. He said Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the UN nuclear inspectorate to inspect struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Walking a Challenging Path

The foreign minister is treading a complex path since Iran wishes not to appear to be acting from a position of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged stronger in military terms and psychologically from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel within its borders that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the stalemate in the previous talks.

Previous Talks Abruptly Ended

The prior phases of talks between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the US president claiming the sites had been obliterated. Following this, Western states used their authority to restore international penalties, but Iran asserts they have not had a significant effect.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in prior discussions, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with US participation could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been decided in the discussions that Washington's technical specialists could function on Iranian soil, but that was a natural consequence of the cooperative offer. Officials asserted three times they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the arrangement to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Current Status

Iranian officials declared the consortium offer was now withdrawn, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be resurrected in certain ways if negotiations reopen.

Trump in recent days claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iran's diplomats say they are not yet receiving clear proposals from America either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been charged of inactivity in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says negotiations is not part of a show.

Political Standpoint

In his remarks to the gathering, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that misuses the notion of international law, the foreign minister stated the two-week conflict demonstrated the conflict could not be settled by combat operations. He said the strikes commenced with a American requirement for an total Iran submission and ended with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with complete American awareness and collaboration, making faith difficult to rebuild.

Dialogue Stays the Primary Solution

Araghchi declared: "Tehran was not the one that had fled diplomacy; it was the United States and the European states that had always attempted to impose their will during the talks. Negotiations can still be active and continues the primary solution to settle disagreements, but its requirements, guidelines and tenets must be respected."

"If they talk to the Iranian people with the language of dignity and honor, they will get a response in the identical language."

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the conflict of repair and rebuilding, the foreign minister said he was confident Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been rebuilt. We learned multiple understandings from this war; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the opponent."

He stated: "We effectively endured this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if damaged, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the determination of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they targeted, but failed to shatter. The nation of Iran have become stronger, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the administration and the country in the wake of this invasion."