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Tehran is ready to restart atomic discussions with Washington on condition that it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

The Iranian diplomat said solely negotiations was effective, and shared new appeals had been made by go-betweens to restart negotiations with the American leadership. He claimed Iran possessed no secret atomic facilities, and Iran was not yet able to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Walking a Difficult Course

The foreign minister is treading a challenging route since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be operating from a stance of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful militarily and mentally from the Israeli-US attack on its nuclear sites in June.

He was speaking at a security conference in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Earlier Negotiations Suddenly Ended

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a 12-day war that ended with the American leader asserting the locations had been obliterated. Afterward, EU nations used their privilege 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 enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was decided an local partnership with US participation could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the talks that US nuclear scientists could function within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats claimed three times they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the agreement to collapse due to "detractors in America".

Existing Position

Iran's diplomats said the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the suggestion could be resurrected in certain ways if talks reopen.

The US president recently stated he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Tehran representatives state they are not yet getting consistent overtures from America either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of passivity in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran states dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Position

In his remarks to the conference, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of worldwide standards, Araghchi stated the 12-day war showed the clash could not be settled by armed force. He stated the strikes started with a US demand for an unconditional Iranian surrender and ended with an complete request for a truce.

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

Dialogue Continues the Primary Resolution

The foreign minister said: "It was not Iran that had abandoned dialogue; it was the United States and the western countries that had always tried to impose their will during the discussions. Negotiations can still be active and stays the ultimate resolution to address disputes, but its standards, regulations and tenets must be followed."

"Provided that they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the language of dignity and honor, they will get a answer in the identical approach."

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of recovery and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was assured Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been reestablished. We learned multiple understandings from this engagement; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the adversary."

He added: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to eliminate, stays intact. The sites and equipment, if damaged, will be restored; what is important is the resolve of the citizens of Tehran and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but did not succeed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have developed more powerful, more cohesive, and more backing of the administration and the state in the wake of this attack."