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Iran is willing to resume atomic discussions with the United States provided that it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat said exclusively dialogue worked, and revealed fresh requests had come from mediators to restart negotiations with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Iran could not yet allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Walking a Challenging Course

The foreign minister is navigating a complex course since Iran aims to avoid appear to be operating from a position of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more powerful in military terms and emotionally 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 absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel domestically that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Discussions Unexpectedly Concluded

The prior phases of discussions between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and bitter termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, struck Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that concluded with the US president declaring the sites had been eliminated. Following this, EU nations employed their right to restore UN-wide sanctions, but Iran maintains they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Tehran representatives said they felt they had achieved a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could process nuclear material. The two nations 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 solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been settled in the negotiations that American atomic experts could work within Iranian territory, but that was a logical implication of the partnership suggestion. Officials claimed repeatedly they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the deal to disintegrate due to "opponents in the US".

Present Position

Iran's diplomats said the partnership proposal was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be revived in various formats if discussions resume.

The US president last week said he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to resume discussions, but confidentially Tehran representatives state they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from Washington either directly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of passivity in the aftermath of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Tehran says negotiations is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Standpoint

In his address to the gathering, designed to depict the US as a dominant force that exploits the notion of worldwide standards, the foreign minister stated the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the conflict could not be settled by combat operations. He said the assaults started with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an complete request for a halt to hostilities.

Iran is certain the initial Israeli attacks were carried out with total Washington understanding and cooperation, making faith hard to reestablish.

Dialogue Continues the Primary Resolution

Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had fled diplomacy; it was America and the western countries that had repeatedly sought to dictate their will during the talks. Dialogue can still be viable and stays the primary solution to settle disputes, but its requirements, guidelines and tenets must be adhered to."

"In case they talk to the citizens of Tehran with the approach of dignity and honor, they will obtain a reply in the same approach."

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the battle of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister said he was assured Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been restored. We acquired numerous insights from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He continued: "We effectively endured this conflict. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to obliterate, remains in place. The installations and gear, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the determination of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but did not succeed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have developed stronger, more integrated, and more endorsing of the administration and the country in the wake of this invasion."