Tehran is prepared to resume nuclear talks with Washington provided that it is handled with "dignity" and "respect", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.
Abbas Araghchi stated only diplomacy worked, and revealed fresh requests had come from go-betweens to reopen discussions with the American leadership. He asserted Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Tehran was not yet able to permit the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.
The foreign minister is navigating a difficult route since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a position of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more powerful defensively and emotionally from the Israeli-US attack on its nuclear sites in June.
He was speaking at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will perpetually retain" – the key factor of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.
The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with US support, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that concluded with the American leader asserting the sites had been eliminated. Subsequently, European countries used their privilege to reinstate UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a substantial consequence.
Tehran representatives stated they felt they had reached a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in prior discussions, when it was decided an Iran-based consortium with US participation could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to declare success since home-based processing would have remained and the US could be certain that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.
It had not been decided in the negotiations that American atomic experts could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Representatives stated three times they had secured an understanding with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the agreement to disintegrate due to "spoilers in Washington".
Tehran representatives said the cooperative arrangement was now withdrawn, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be revived in some form if negotiations resume.
The American leader recently stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but privately Tehran representatives state they are not yet getting consistent overtures from Washington either directly or from key regional mediators, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been accused of inactivity in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.
In his speech to the gathering, aimed to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the notion of global regulations, Araghchi stated the two-week conflict demonstrated the dispute could not be resolved by armed force. He said the assaults started with a US demand for an total Iran submission and ended with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.
Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were carried out with total Washington understanding and coordination, making faith difficult to reestablish.
The foreign minister said: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted dialogue; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently tried to dictate their will during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be active and continues the final answer to address disagreements, but its requirements, guidelines and fundamentals must be adhered to."
"In case they talk to the Iranian people with the approach of respect and respect, they will get a response in the equivalent language."
In what is described by Iranian officials as the conflict of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister claimed he was assured Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We learned numerous insights from this conflict; we have identified our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the adversary."
He added: "We successfully passed this war. Our enrichment knowledge, which they intended to obliterate, stays intact. The facilities and machinery, if damaged, will be restored; what is essential is the determination of the citizens of Tehran and then the social solidarity that they targeted, but were unable to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have grown stronger, more united, and more endorsing of the government and the nation in the face of this invasion."
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