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Tehran is willing to restart nuclear negotiations with the United States on condition that it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has stated.

Abbas Araghchi declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and shared recent overtures had originated from go-betweens to resume discussions with the American leadership. He claimed Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to authorize the global atomic watchdog to access attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Walking a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is navigating a challenging course since Iran aims to avoid appear to be proceeding from a stance of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more powerful militarily and emotionally from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material domestically that it will never give up" – the key factor of the impasse in the prior discussions.

Previous Talks Unexpectedly Ended

The previous five rounds of discussions between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and hostile termination on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that concluded with the American leader declaring the locations had been destroyed. Following this, EU nations employed their privilege to reimpose international penalties, but Iran asserts they have not had a substantial consequence.

Magic Solution Proposed

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in prior discussions, when it was agreed an domestic cooperative with US participation could process nuclear material. Each party would have been able to claim victory since local refinement would have persisted and the US could be certain that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could operate inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats stated repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the deal to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Position

Iran's diplomats said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the suggestion could be resurrected in some form if negotiations resume.

The American leader recently stated he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but confidentially Tehran representatives state they are not yet obtaining consistent overtures from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been accused of inactivity in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran asserts dialogue is not part of a show.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the conference, intended to portray the US as a dominant force that exploits the concept of international law, the foreign minister said the two-week conflict demonstrated the dispute could not be resolved by military means. He stated the strikes began with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is convinced the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making confidence challenging to reestablish.

Dialogue Remains the Final Answer

Araghchi declared: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned diplomacy; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently attempted to impose their will during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be viable and stays the ultimate resolution to resolve disputes, but its standards, regulations and tenets must be adhered to."

"Provided that they talk to the nation of Iran with the language of respect and honor, they will receive a reply in the equivalent approach."

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the battle of recovery and recovery, Araghchi claimed he was confident Iran's security strengths "are considerably enhanced than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been restored. We acquired multiple understandings from this war; we have identified our internal vulnerabilities and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He stated: "We managed to survive this war. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and machinery, if eliminated, will be restored; what is crucial is the will of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have become more powerful, more integrated, and more backing of the government and the state in the face of this assault."