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Tehran is ready to restart nuclear discussions with Washington as long as it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue was effective, and shared fresh requests had been made by go-betweens to resume talks with the American leadership. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to authorize the International Atomic Energy Agency to access attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Walking a Challenging Route

The foreign minister is treading a complex path since Iran wishes not to appear to be operating from a position of weakness, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had emerged more resilient in military terms and emotionally from the joint assault on its nuclear sites in June.

He was addressing at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material on home soil that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the impasse in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Negotiations Suddenly Concluded

The previous five rounds of discussions between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and hostile end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with Washington's assistance, struck Tehran's atomic facilities in a 12-day war that culminated with the American leader claiming the sites had been eliminated. Subsequently, EU nations employed their privilege to reimpose international penalties, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iranian officials said they felt they had reached a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in previous talks, when it was decided an local partnership with US participation could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since domestic enrichment would have persisted and the US could be certain that Iran's nuclear programme was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that US nuclear scientists could operate inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Officials claimed on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the US official only for the agreement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".

Present Position

Iran's diplomats said the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the proposal could be revived in certain ways if talks resume.

The US president recently said he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to restart talks, but confidentially Tehran representatives say they are not yet receiving coherent offers from Washington either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, Egypt, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of passivity in the aftermath of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says dialogue is not part of a show.

Political Standpoint

In his remarks to the forum, designed to depict the US as a hegemonic power that abuses the idea of international law, the foreign minister declared the fortnight-long engagement showed the dispute could not be settled by armed force. He stated the strikes commenced with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an complete request for a ceasefire.

Iran is convinced the first strikes by Israel were carried out with full US knowledge and collaboration, making confidence challenging to reestablish.

Dialogue Remains the Final Solution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had deserted negotiations; it was the United States and the Western nations that had consistently tried to impose their demands during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the ultimate answer to settle conflicts, but its standards, guidelines and fundamentals must be adhered to."

"If they address to the Iranian people with the language of dignity and respect, they will get a answer in the identical tone."

Recovery and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of restoration and recovery, the foreign minister stated he was confident Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this engagement; we have identified our own weaknesses and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He stated: "We successfully passed this war. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to obliterate, remains in place. The installations and equipment, if eliminated, will be rebuilt; what is important is the determination of the Iranian people and then the unity of the country that they aimed at, but did not succeed to shatter. The Iranian people have grown more powerful, more united, and more endorsing of the administration and the state in the wake of this assault."