🔗 Share this article

Tehran is willing to resume atomic negotiations with the United States on condition that it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

Abbas Araghchi declared solely negotiations produced results, and revealed new appeals had originated from go-betweens to restart negotiations with the American leadership. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran was not yet able to allow the global atomic watchdog to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Navigating a Complex Route

The foreign minister is navigating a complex path since Iran wishes not to appear to be acting from a position of disadvantage, and he consistently maintained that Iran had emerged more powerful defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will never give up" – the main reason of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Negotiations Unexpectedly Concluded

The earlier sessions of discussions between the United States and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and bitter conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that concluded with the US president claiming the facilities had been eliminated. Subsequently, European countries employed their privilege to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Proposed

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in prior discussions, when it was agreed an domestic cooperative with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.

It had not been decided in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could function inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats claimed repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the arrangement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".

Present Status

Iranian officials said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be resurrected in various formats if talks reopen.

The American leader in recent days claimed he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iranian officials state they are not yet receiving clear proposals from Washington either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of non-responsiveness in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran states diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Political Stance

In his remarks to the forum, designed to paint the US as a dominant force that abuses the concept of worldwide standards, Araghchi stated the fortnight-long engagement revealed the conflict could not be settled by armed force. He asserted the assaults began with a US demand for an unconditional Iranian surrender and ended with an unconditional call for a truce.

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

Diplomacy Continues the Final Answer

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had fled negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently tried to enforce their demands during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be active and remains the ultimate answer to resolve disputes, but its criteria, regulations and tenets must be respected."

"In case they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the tone of respect and respect, they will receive a answer in the equivalent language."

Recovery and Reconstruction

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the battle of repair and recovery, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We learned many lessons from this conflict; we have discovered our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He added: "We effectively endured this war. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to destroy, stays intact. The facilities and equipment, if damaged, will be restored; what is essential is the will of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they sought to undermine, but failed to destroy. The citizens of Tehran have grown more powerful, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the leadership and the nation in the wake of this invasion."