Iran States It Could Return to US Nuclear Discussions if Handled with 'Dignity' and 'Respect'

Iran is prepared to restart atomic discussions with the United States on condition that it is approached with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has stated.

The Iranian diplomat stated only diplomacy produced results, and disclosed recent overtures had come from go-betweens to resume talks with the US government. He asserted Iran did not have secret atomic facilities, and Iran was not yet able to allow the UN nuclear inspectorate to access attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.

Walking a Difficult Course

Araghchi is walking a challenging path since Iran does not want appear to be proceeding from a situation of disadvantage, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more powerful 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 "a fundamental entitlement to enrich uranium domestically that it will perpetually retain" – the primary cause of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Previous Negotiations Suddenly Terminated

The prior phases of talks between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious conclusion on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, struck Iranian nuclear sites in a fortnight-long engagement that ended with the US president asserting the locations had been eliminated. Subsequently, European countries used their authority to reimpose global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iran's diplomats stated they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was decided an local partnership with US participation could process nuclear material. The two nations would have been able to declare success since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been agreed in the negotiations that American atomic experts could work on Iranian soil, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Diplomats claimed on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with the US representative the US official only for the agreement to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Existing Position

Iran's diplomats stated the consortium offer was now off the table, but it seems highly likely the suggestion could be resurrected in various formats if negotiations resume.

Trump in recent days claimed he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but privately Iran's diplomats claim they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from the United States either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of inactivity in the aftermath of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Iran states negotiations is not part of a spectacle.

Political Standpoint

In his address to the conference, aimed to portray the US as a dominant force that abuses the notion of international law, Araghchi said the 12-day war revealed the conflict could not be settled by military means. He stated the strikes commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an unconditional call for a truce.

Iran is convinced the initial Israeli attacks were mounted with full US knowledge and collaboration, making trust hard to reestablish.

Diplomacy Stays the Primary Resolution

The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the western countries that had always sought to enforce their will during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be active and continues the ultimate solution to settle disagreements, but its standards, regulations and tenets must be followed."

"Provided that they talk to the Iranian people with the language of respect and honor, they will obtain a reply in the identical approach."

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is characterized by Iranian officials as the conflict of repair and rebuilding, the foreign minister claimed he was certain Iran's defence capabilities "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We learned many lessons from this engagement; we have identified our personal limitations and the shortcomings of the enemy."

He stated: "We successfully passed this war. Our nuclear technology, which they intended to obliterate, remains in place. The sites and equipment, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the resolve of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to shatter. The Iranian people have become more resilient, more united, and more backing of the leadership and the state in the aftermath of this invasion."