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Tehran is ready to resume atomic discussions with Washington on condition that it is approached with "respect" and "respect", Tehran's foreign minister has announced.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue worked, and disclosed new appeals had been made by mediators to reopen talks with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran was not yet able to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to access attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Navigating a Complex Route

The foreign minister is treading a challenging route since Iran does not want be seen to be operating from a position of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more resilient militarily and psychologically from the Israeli-US attack on its atomic facilities in June.

He was speaking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material on home soil that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Previous Discussions Unexpectedly Terminated

The previous five rounds of discussions between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the US president asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Afterward, Western states employed their authority to restore international penalties, but Iran insists they have not had a significant effect.

Perfect Agreement Suggested

Iranian officials stated they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in prior discussions, when it was decided an local partnership with American involvement could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to declare success since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that American atomic experts could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Officials claimed repeatedly they had secured an understanding with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the arrangement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".

Current Status

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems quite possible the offer could be revived in some form if discussions restart.

The American leader last week claimed he had been getting signals that Iran desired to resume discussions, but privately Iranian officials say they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from America either directly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of passivity in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran says diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Political Stance

In his speech to the forum, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that exploits the notion of global regulations, Araghchi stated the two-week conflict demonstrated the conflict could not be settled by combat operations. He said the attacks began with a Washington's ultimatum for an unconditional Iranian surrender and culminated with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with full US knowledge and cooperation, making faith challenging to restore.

Negotiations Continues the Final Resolution

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was America and the European states that had consistently attempted to dictate their desires during the discussions. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the final solution to settle disagreements, but its standards, rules and fundamentals must be followed."

"In case they address to the Iranian people with the tone of respect and honor, they will get a answer in the equivalent language."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the battle of repair and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was certain Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We acquired many lessons from this engagement; we have identified our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the adversary."

He continued: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to eliminate, stays intact. The sites and machinery, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is crucial is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but were unable to break. The nation of Iran have developed more powerful, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the government and the country in the wake of this invasion."