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Iran is prepared to reinitiate nuclear talks with Washington as long as it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi said exclusively dialogue was effective, and shared recent overtures had originated from mediators to restart negotiations with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the UN nuclear inspectorate to access attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Navigating a Complex Course

The foreign minister is walking a difficult course since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be operating from a position of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had arisen more resilient defensively and emotionally from the Israeli-US attack on its nuclear sites in June.

He was speaking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will never give up" – the main reason of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Discussions Unexpectedly Terminated

The previous five rounds of negotiations between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with Washington's assistance, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a 12-day war that ended with Donald Trump asserting the sites had been eliminated. Subsequently, EU nations exercised their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a significant effect.

Ideal Resolution Offered

Iranian officials claimed they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the enrichment issue in previous talks, when it was agreed an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to declare success since local refinement would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's atomic project was solely for peaceful purposes.

It had not been settled in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could operate on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats asserted on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy the US official only for the arrangement to collapse due to "spoilers in Washington".

Present Situation

Iran's diplomats declared the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the proposal could be revived in various formats if talks resume.

The US president recently stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to resume discussions, but privately Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet obtaining clear proposals from the United States either directly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of inactivity in the wake of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Negotiating Position

In his remarks to the forum, designed to paint the US as a dominant force that misuses the concept of worldwide standards, the foreign minister declared the fortnight-long engagement demonstrated the clash could not be resolved by military means. He asserted the strikes began with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and culminated with an complete request for a truce.

Iran is certain the first strikes by Israel were executed with full US knowledge and coordination, making faith difficult to restore.

Negotiations Remains the Final Solution

The foreign minister declared: "It was not Iran that had fled diplomacy; it was the United States and the European states that had consistently attempted to enforce their desires during the discussions. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the ultimate solution to resolve disputes, but its criteria, regulations and tenets must be followed."

"If they speak to the nation of Iran with the approach of dignity and respect, they will receive a answer in the same tone."

Recovery and Recovery

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the struggle of recovery and rebuilding, Araghchi said he was confident Iran's defence capabilities "have significantly improved than prior to 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this engagement; we have discovered our personal limitations and the vulnerabilities of the opponent."

He added: "We successfully passed this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they aimed to eliminate, remains in place. The sites and equipment, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is important is the determination of the citizens of Tehran and then the national cohesion that they targeted, but did not succeed to break. The Iranian people have developed more resilient, more integrated, and more supportive of the leadership and the nation in the wake of this invasion."