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Tehran is prepared to reinitiate atomic talks with the United States provided that it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi stated only diplomacy produced results, and disclosed fresh requests had come from intermediaries to restart talks with the Trump administration. He said Iran had zero secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to permit the global atomic watchdog to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Navigating a Difficult Course

Araghchi is treading a challenging path since Iran does not want appear to be proceeding from a position of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful defensively and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel within its borders that it will never give up" – the main reason of the stalemate in the prior discussions.

Previous Discussions Suddenly Concluded

The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, attacked Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the US president asserting the locations had been eliminated. Following this, Western states employed their authority to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iranian officials stated they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was agreed an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to assert triumph 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 decided in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could work within Iranian territory, but that was a natural consequence of the consortium proposal. Representatives claimed repeatedly they had reached agreement with the US representative the US official only for the agreement to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".

Current Situation

Iran's diplomats stated the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems very probable the offer could be resurrected in some form if negotiations restart.

Trump recently said he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iranian officials state they are not yet receiving clear proposals from the United States either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of non-responsiveness in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran asserts dialogue is not part of a show.

Political Standpoint

In his address to the forum, aimed to depict the US as a controlling nation that exploits the concept of worldwide standards, the foreign minister stated the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the clash could not be settled by armed force. He said the strikes commenced with a Washington's ultimatum for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a truce.

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

Diplomacy Remains the Ultimate Solution

Araghchi said: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted dialogue; it was the United States and the western countries that had repeatedly sought to dictate their demands during the talks. Diplomacy can still be active and continues the primary solution to resolve disputes, but its standards, rules and tenets must be respected."

"In case they speak to the nation of Iran with the approach of respect and honor, they will obtain a answer in the equivalent tone."

Recovery and Rebuilding

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of repair and recovery, the foreign minister claimed he was assured Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We learned multiple understandings from this conflict; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the opponent."

He continued: "We effectively endured this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to eliminate, remains in place. The facilities and gear, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the will of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but failed to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have grown more resilient, more integrated, and more endorsing of the leadership and the country in the face of this assault."