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Tehran is willing to reinitiate nuclear talks with Washington on condition that it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

Abbas Araghchi stated solely negotiations produced results, and shared fresh requests had been made by go-betweens to resume talks with the American leadership. He said Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran could not yet permit the UN nuclear inspectorate to inspect bombed nuclear sites for security reasons.

Walking a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is walking a difficult route since Iran does not want be seen to be operating from a position of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out stronger militarily and emotionally from the joint assault on its atomic facilities in June.

He was addressing at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material domestically that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Discussions Unexpectedly Concluded

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and bitter conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, attacked Iranian nuclear sites in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the American leader claiming the locations had been eliminated. Afterward, Western states used their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was decided an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to claim victory since local refinement would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's enrichment initiative was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been decided in the talks that US nuclear scientists could function inside Iran, but that was a reasonable assumption of the consortium proposal. Diplomats asserted repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the deal to collapse due to "detractors in America".

Current Position

Tehran representatives declared the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems highly likely the offer could be reintroduced in some form if negotiations restart.

The US president recently claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to restart talks, but confidentially Tehran representatives claim they are not yet receiving clear proposals from America either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says negotiations is not part of a show.

Negotiating Standpoint

In his remarks to the gathering, intended to portray the US as a controlling nation that misuses the idea of worldwide standards, the foreign minister declared the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the conflict could not be resolved by military means. He stated the assaults commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with complete American awareness and cooperation, making confidence difficult to reestablish.

Diplomacy Stays the Ultimate Resolution

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had always sought to impose their will during the discussions. Dialogue can still be alive and remains the primary answer to address disputes, but its requirements, rules and fundamentals must be followed."

"If they speak to the nation of Iran with the approach of respect and honor, they will receive a response in the equivalent tone."

Restoration and Recovery

In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the battle of restoration and rebuilding, Araghchi stated he was assured Iran's defence capabilities "have significantly improved than before 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We gained many lessons from this conflict; we have discovered our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He stated: "We effectively endured this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to obliterate, remains in place. The sites and machinery, if destroyed, will be restored; what is essential is the will of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but were unable to destroy. The Iranian people have grown more powerful, more united, and more endorsing of the administration and the nation in the wake of this assault."