🔗 Share this article

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

The Iranian diplomat said solely negotiations worked, and shared recent overtures had been made by intermediaries to restart talks with the US government. He asserted Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to access struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Walking a Challenging Route

Araghchi is treading a difficult path since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be proceeding from a position of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen stronger in military terms and mentally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was speaking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to enrich uranium on home soil that it will perpetually retain" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the prior discussions.

Prior Talks Abruptly Concluded

The prior phases of negotiations between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious termination on 12 June when Israel, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with Donald Trump declaring the facilities had been eliminated. Afterward, European countries employed their authority to reinstate international penalties, but Iran maintains they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Offered

Iranian officials said they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was decided an local partnership with American involvement could refine atomic fuel. Each party would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be assured that Iran's atomic project was entirely non-military.

It had not been settled in the talks that US nuclear scientists could function inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Representatives stated three times they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the arrangement to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Present Position

Iran's diplomats declared the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be reintroduced in certain ways if discussions reopen.

The US president last week said he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to restart talks, but in private Iran's diplomats state they are not yet obtaining clear proposals from Washington either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been criticized of non-responsiveness in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a show.

Political Standpoint

In his speech to the conference, designed to portray the US as a dominant force that abuses the concept of international law, Araghchi declared the 12-day war showed the conflict could not be resolved by military means. He said the strikes started with a US demand for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were executed with full US knowledge and cooperation, making trust hard to reestablish.

Diplomacy Remains the Final Resolution

Araghchi stated: "Tehran was not the one that had fled diplomacy; it was the United States and the western countries that had consistently attempted to impose their will during the talks. Diplomacy can still be viable and continues the ultimate resolution to resolve disagreements, but its criteria, guidelines and tenets must be respected."

"If they speak to the Iranian people with the approach of respect and honor, they will obtain a reply in the equivalent language."

Recovery and Recovery

In what is described by Iranian officials as the conflict of recovery and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was certain Iran's military capacities "are considerably enhanced than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been restored. We acquired numerous insights from this engagement; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the adversary."

He continued: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to eliminate, stays intact. The sites and gear, if destroyed, will be restored; what is essential is the determination of the nation of Iran and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but failed to shatter. The Iranian people have grown stronger, more united, and more supportive of the leadership and the nation in the face of this invasion."