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Tehran is willing to reinitiate atomic discussions with Washington as long as it is treated with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has stated.

Abbas Araghchi declared solely negotiations worked, and revealed new appeals had come from mediators to resume discussions with the Trump administration. He said Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran could not yet allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect struck enrichment centers for security reasons.

Navigating a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is navigating a complex path since Iran wishes not to appear to be operating from a situation of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen stronger in military terms and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its enrichment centers in June.

He was talking at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an inalienable right to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the deadlock in the prior discussions.

Earlier Talks Unexpectedly Terminated

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the US and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and acrimonious termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with US support, attacked Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that culminated with the US president claiming the sites had been destroyed. Subsequently, Western states employed their right to restore international penalties, but Iran asserts they have not had a significant effect.

Magic Solution Offered

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could process nuclear material. Each party would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been decided in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats asserted three times they had achieved a deal with the US representative the American negotiator only for the arrangement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".

Existing Status

Iranian officials declared the partnership proposal was now withdrawn, but it seems highly likely the offer could be revived in certain ways if talks resume.

The US president in recent days claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but in private Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet obtaining consistent overtures from Washington either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of passivity in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Negotiating Position

In his remarks to the gathering, designed to depict the US as a hegemonic power that misuses the notion of global regulations, the foreign minister declared the 12-day war showed the conflict could not be ended by military means. He stated the assaults began with a American requirement for an total Iran submission and culminated with an absolute demand for a ceasefire.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with full US knowledge and collaboration, making faith challenging to rebuild.

Diplomacy Continues the Primary Answer

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had abandoned dialogue; it was the United States and the Western nations that had consistently tried to dictate their desires during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be viable and remains the final resolution to resolve conflicts, but its requirements, regulations and tenets must be respected."

"Provided that they address to the nation of Iran with the tone of dignity and honor, they will obtain a response in the equivalent language."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the conflict of repair and reconstruction, the foreign minister stated he was assured Iran's security strengths "are considerably enhanced than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been restored. We gained numerous insights from this engagement; we have identified our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the opponent."

He continued: "We successfully passed this engagement. Our nuclear technology, which they intended to destroy, remains in place. The sites and equipment, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is important is the determination of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but failed to break. The citizens of Tehran have become more powerful, more united, and more endorsing of the administration and the state in the aftermath of this invasion."