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Tehran is ready to reinitiate nuclear negotiations with Washington on condition that it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's top diplomat has announced.

The Iranian diplomat declared exclusively dialogue produced results, and disclosed recent overtures had come from intermediaries to resume negotiations with the Trump administration. He claimed Iran had zero undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran was not yet able to permit the UN nuclear inspectorate to access struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.

Navigating a Difficult Course

The foreign minister is treading a difficult path since Iran wishes not to appear to be operating from a situation of vulnerability, and he consistently maintained that Iran had come out more resilient militarily and mentally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.

He was talking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an inalienable right to enrich uranium within its borders that it will never give up" – the key factor of the deadlock in the previous talks.

Earlier Negotiations Suddenly Terminated

The prior phases of discussions between the US and Iran were ended suddenly and acrimonious end on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a two-week conflict that ended with the US president declaring the facilities had been destroyed. Following this, Western states used their authority to reinstate global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a major impact.

Perfect Agreement Suggested

Iran's diplomats said they felt they had reached a "ideal resolution" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was settled an local partnership with American involvement could process nuclear material. Both sides would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be assured that Iran's atomic project was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been settled in the talks that US nuclear scientists could operate inside Iran, but that was a logical implication of the consortium proposal. Representatives asserted on multiple occasions they had achieved a deal with Trump's special envoy the American negotiator only for the deal to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".

Current Position

Iranian officials declared the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems highly likely the offer could be revived in various formats if talks reopen.

The American leader recently said he had been obtaining communications that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but in private Tehran representatives state they are not yet obtaining clear proposals from Washington either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been charged of passivity in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran asserts diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.

Diplomatic Stance

In his speech to the conference, intended to portray the US as a controlling nation that exploits the notion of global regulations, Araghchi declared the fortnight-long engagement revealed the dispute could not be resolved by combat operations. He said the attacks began with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an absolute demand for a truce.

Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were mounted with complete American awareness and collaboration, making faith hard to reestablish.

Negotiations Continues the Final Solution

The foreign minister declared: "It was not Iran that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the Western nations that had always attempted to dictate their demands during the discussions. Negotiations can still be alive and continues the primary answer to resolve disputes, but its standards, regulations and tenets must be respected."

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

Repair and Rebuilding

In what is described by Tehran representatives as the battle of restoration and rebuilding, Araghchi said he was certain Iran's military capacities "are much stronger than before 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been rebuilt. We acquired numerous insights from this war; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the shortcomings of the opponent."

He continued: "We effectively endured this war. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to destroy, remains in place. The facilities and gear, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is important is the will of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but were unable to break. The Iranian people have grown more powerful, more cohesive, and more backing of the leadership and the country in the aftermath of this attack."