Tehran is ready to restart atomic discussions with the United States as long as it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Iran's top diplomat has stated.
Abbas Araghchi stated solely negotiations worked, and disclosed new appeals had come from intermediaries to restart negotiations with the American leadership. He said Iran had zero secret atomic facilities, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the global atomic watchdog to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.
The foreign minister is treading a complex route since Iran does not want be perceived to be operating from a position of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had emerged more resilient militarily and psychologically from the Israeli-US attack on its nuclear sites in June.
He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will never give up" – the primary cause of the impasse in the previous talks.
The earlier sessions of discussions between the United States and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and hostile conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, targeted Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that culminated with Donald Trump claiming the locations had been eliminated. Subsequently, European countries exercised their authority to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.
Iranian officials claimed they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was agreed an local partnership 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 assured that Iran's atomic project was entirely non-military.
It had not been settled in the discussions that American atomic experts could work within Iranian territory, but that was a natural consequence of the consortium proposal. Officials stated repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff only for the arrangement to collapse due to "detractors in America".
Iran's diplomats declared the consortium offer was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be revived in various formats if discussions restart.
The US president last week stated he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but confidentially Tehran representatives claim they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from the United States either directly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of non-responsiveness in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran asserts dialogue is not part of a performance.
In his speech to the forum, aimed to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister said the fortnight-long engagement revealed the clash could not be settled by military means. He said the assaults began with a US demand for an total Iran submission and culminated with an unconditional call for a halt to hostilities.
Iran is certain the initial Israeli attacks were executed with total Washington understanding and coordination, making faith difficult to restore.
The foreign minister stated: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted dialogue; it was America and the Western nations that had repeatedly attempted to impose their demands during the discussions. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the final resolution to settle disputes, but its requirements, regulations and tenets must be followed."
"If they speak to the citizens of Tehran with the language of respect and respect, they will receive a reply in the equivalent approach."
In what is portrayed by Iranian officials as the battle of repair and recovery, Araghchi claimed he was certain Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than before 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this war; we have discovered our internal vulnerabilities and the weaknesses of the adversary."
He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to eliminate, stays intact. The installations and equipment, if damaged, will be restored; what is crucial is the will of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they sought to undermine, but were unable to destroy. The nation of Iran have developed more powerful, more integrated, and more backing of the leadership and the nation in the wake of this attack."
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