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Tehran is prepared to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States provided that it is handled with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

The Iranian diplomat declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and shared fresh requests had come from go-betweens to reopen discussions with the US government. He asserted Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran had not yet reached a point to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to access bombed nuclear sites for safety concerns.

Walking a Difficult Course

The foreign minister is walking a challenging route since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be proceeding from a stance of vulnerability, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen stronger defensively and psychologically from the joint assault on its enrichment centers in June.

He was addressing at a strategic meeting in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an inalienable right to enrich uranium within its borders that it will always maintain" – the primary cause of the deadlock in the previous talks.

Earlier Talks Abruptly Ended

The earlier sessions of talks between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, attacked Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that culminated with Donald Trump asserting the locations had been destroyed. Afterward, Western states exercised their authority to reinstate international penalties, but Iran insists they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Suggested

Tehran representatives said they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the enrichment issue in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an local partnership with US participation could enrich uranium. Both sides 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 solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been settled in the talks that American atomic experts could operate inside Iran, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats stated three times they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Current Position

Tehran representatives declared the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems quite possible the offer could be revived in various formats if negotiations reopen.

Trump last week stated he had been receiving messages that Iran wanted to resume discussions, but privately Tehran representatives say they are not yet obtaining consistent overtures from Washington either directly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of non-responsiveness in the face of the US president's straightforward manner, but Iran says negotiations is not part of a spectacle.

Political Position

In his speech to the gathering, aimed to depict the US as a controlling nation that exploits the notion of worldwide standards, the foreign minister stated the two-week conflict revealed the dispute could not be ended by armed force. He said the attacks started with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an unconditional call for a ceasefire.

Iran is assured the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were carried out with complete American awareness and collaboration, making trust hard to reestablish.

Negotiations Stays the Ultimate Resolution

The foreign minister said: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently attempted to enforce their will during the discussions. Dialogue can still be alive and continues the ultimate answer to settle disagreements, but its standards, rules and tenets must be respected."

"Provided that they speak to the nation of Iran with the tone of dignity and honor, they will get a answer in the same tone."

Repair and Reconstruction

In what is described by Iran's diplomats as the conflict of restoration and rebuilding, the foreign minister stated he was assured Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We learned numerous insights from this engagement; we have identified our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the enemy."

He added: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our atomic expertise, which they planned to destroy, continues to exist. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be restored; what is important is the resolve of the citizens of Tehran and then the national cohesion that they sought to undermine, but failed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have become more powerful, more integrated, and more supportive of the administration and the nation in the aftermath of this invasion."