Iran is ready to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States provided that it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.
The Iranian diplomat stated solely negotiations worked, and shared new appeals had been made by mediators to resume talks with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran was not yet able to authorize the global atomic watchdog to visit bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.
Araghchi is navigating a complex route since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be acting from a position of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more powerful militarily and emotionally from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.
He was speaking at a security conference in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to process nuclear material domestically that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the impasse in the previous talks.
The prior phases of negotiations between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a 12-day war that ended with the American leader claiming the locations had been destroyed. Subsequently, EU nations used their authority to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.
Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with US participation could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.
It had not been decided in the talks that American atomic experts could function on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the cooperative offer. Diplomats stated three times they had secured an understanding with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".
Iran's diplomats stated the cooperative arrangement was now off the table, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be resurrected in some form if negotiations restart.
The American leader in recent days said he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to restart talks, but in private Iranian officials say they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from Washington either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Iran's state department has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.
In his remarks to the forum, intended to portray the US as a hegemonic power that abuses the idea of worldwide standards, the foreign minister said the two-week conflict demonstrated the clash could not be settled by military means. He said the attacks commenced with a US demand for an unconditional Iranian surrender and culminated with an complete request for a truce.
Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were carried out with complete American awareness and collaboration, making trust challenging to reestablish.
The foreign minister declared: "It was not Iran that had deserted diplomacy; it was America and the western countries that had repeatedly tried to impose their demands during the negotiations. Negotiations can still be viable and remains the primary answer to resolve disputes, but its criteria, guidelines and fundamentals must be adhered to."
"In case they speak to the nation of Iran with the tone of dignity and honor, they will get a reply in the identical tone."
In what is portrayed by Iranian officials as the conflict of repair and reconstruction, the foreign minister said he was certain Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We acquired multiple understandings from this conflict; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the enemy."
He continued: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to obliterate, continues to exist. The facilities and equipment, if destroyed, will be restored; what is essential is the determination of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have become more powerful, more cohesive, and more supportive of the administration and the state in the face of this attack."
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