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Tehran is ready to resume atomic discussions with Washington as long as it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has declared.

The Iranian diplomat stated exclusively dialogue worked, and shared recent overtures had originated from intermediaries to reopen negotiations with the American leadership. He said Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Tehran was not yet able to allow the global atomic watchdog to access struck enrichment centers for protective measures.

Walking a Complex Course

The foreign minister is walking a difficult path since Iran does not want appear to be operating from a position of disadvantage, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more resilient defensively and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium within its borders that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the deadlock in the previous talks.

Earlier Discussions Unexpectedly Terminated

The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and bitter termination on 12 June when Israel, with US support, struck Iranian nuclear sites in a 12-day war that concluded with the American leader declaring the facilities had been obliterated. Afterward, EU nations exercised their privilege to reinstate UN-wide sanctions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was decided an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could refine atomic fuel. Each party would have been able to declare success since domestic enrichment would have remained and the US could be confident that Iran's nuclear programme was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the discussions that American atomic experts could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Officials asserted three times they had reached agreement with the US representative the American negotiator only for the arrangement to fall apart due to "detractors in America".

Existing Status

Tehran representatives said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be reintroduced in certain ways if discussions resume.

The American leader recently claimed he had been obtaining communications that Iran desired to resume discussions, but in private Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet getting coherent offers from the United States either explicitly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been criticized of passivity in the aftermath of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran states dialogue is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Position

In his speech to the conference, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that abuses the idea of worldwide standards, Araghchi said the fortnight-long engagement revealed the dispute could not be ended by armed force. He asserted the assaults commenced with a Washington's ultimatum for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is assured the first strikes by Israel were mounted with full US knowledge and coordination, making faith hard to rebuild.

Diplomacy Continues the Final Resolution

The foreign minister stated: "It was not Iran that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently sought to enforce their will during the discussions. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the primary answer to settle disagreements, but its standards, guidelines and tenets must be followed."

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

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of restoration and reconstruction, Araghchi claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We learned numerous insights from this conflict; we have come to know our internal vulnerabilities and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He continued: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they aimed to obliterate, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if destroyed, will be rebuilt; what is essential is the resolve of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but failed to destroy. The nation of Iran have developed more resilient, more integrated, and more supportive of the government and the nation in the wake of this assault."