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Tehran is willing to reinitiate atomic negotiations with Washington as long as it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has declared.

The Iranian diplomat stated exclusively dialogue worked, and revealed new appeals had been made by intermediaries to reopen talks with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran did not have undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Navigating a Challenging Course

Araghchi is walking a challenging path since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be proceeding from a position of disadvantage, and he consistently maintained that Iran had emerged stronger defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will never give up" – the key factor of the stalemate in the prior discussions.

Earlier Talks Suddenly Terminated

The earlier sessions of discussions between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, attacked Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that concluded with the US president asserting the facilities had been obliterated. Subsequently, Western states exercised their privilege to reimpose UN-wide sanctions, but Iran insists they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was decided an Iran-based consortium with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Each party would have been able to declare success since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the negotiations that American atomic experts could function on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats asserted on multiple occasions they had achieved a deal with the US representative the US official only for the deal to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Present Status

Tehran representatives said the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems highly likely the offer could be reintroduced in various formats if negotiations reopen.

Trump last week claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to resume discussions, but confidentially Iranian officials claim they are not yet receiving coherent offers from the United States either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been accused of passivity in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran asserts negotiations is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the forum, intended to portray the US as a controlling nation that misuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister stated the 12-day war demonstrated the clash could not be ended by military means. He stated the assaults commenced with a US demand for an total Iran submission and concluded with an absolute demand for a truce.

Iran is certain the first strikes by Israel were carried out with complete American awareness and cooperation, making faith hard to reestablish.

Negotiations Continues the Primary Answer

The foreign minister stated: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned dialogue; it was America and the western countries that had repeatedly attempted to enforce their desires during the talks. Dialogue can still be active and remains the final resolution to address disputes, but its requirements, regulations and tenets must be respected."

"In case they talk to the Iranian people with the tone of respect and honor, they will get a response in the same tone."

Recovery and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Tehran representatives as the battle of restoration and reconstruction, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's defence capabilities "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this war; we have identified our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the enemy."

He continued: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to eliminate, remains in place. The facilities and equipment, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the will of the citizens of Tehran and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but failed to shatter. The Iranian people have grown stronger, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the leadership and the nation in the wake of this attack."