Iran is ready to resume atomic discussions with the United States on condition that it is handled with "dignity" and "respect", Iran's top diplomat has declared.
The Iranian diplomat stated solely negotiations worked, and shared fresh requests had been made by mediators to resume negotiations with the US government. He asserted Iran possessed no unreported enrichment locations, and Iran could not yet allow the global atomic watchdog to inspect struck enrichment centers for safety concerns.
The foreign minister is navigating a challenging course since Iran aims to avoid be seen to be operating from a position of weakness, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had arisen stronger defensively and mentally from the Israeli-US attack on its nuclear sites in June.
He was talking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to enrich uranium on home soil that it will never give up" – the key factor of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.
The previous five rounds of negotiations between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, struck Iranian nuclear sites in a two-week conflict that concluded with the US president claiming the locations had been obliterated. Afterward, EU nations exercised their right to restore global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a major impact.
Iranian officials said they felt they had attained a "perfect agreement" to the nuclear fuel concern in earlier negotiations, when it was agreed an local partnership with American involvement could enrich uranium. Each party would have been able to claim victory since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be certain that Iran's atomic project was entirely non-military.
It had not been agreed in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could work inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the consortium proposal. Officials claimed on multiple occasions they had secured an understanding with the US representative the US official only for the agreement to collapse due to "opponents in the US".
Tehran representatives declared the consortium offer was now off the table, but it seems quite possible the offer could be resurrected in various formats if discussions resume.
The US president in recent days said he had been receiving messages that Iran sought to restart talks, but privately Iranian officials claim they are not yet getting consistent overtures from the United States either explicitly or from key regional mediators, such as Qatar, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of non-responsiveness in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a performance.
In his address to the forum, intended to depict the US as a dominant force that exploits the notion of worldwide standards, Araghchi declared the 12-day war revealed the clash could not be settled by military means. He said the attacks started with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an unconditional call for a truce.
Iran is assured the initial Israeli attacks were executed with full US knowledge and cooperation, making faith hard to rebuild.
The foreign minister said: "It was not Iran that had abandoned diplomacy; it was the United States and the western countries that had always attempted to impose their demands during the negotiations. Negotiations can still be active and continues the ultimate solution to resolve disagreements, but its requirements, guidelines and fundamentals must be followed."
"Provided that they speak to the Iranian people with the approach of dignity and respect, they will obtain a answer in the equivalent language."
In what is described by Iranian officials as the struggle of recovery and rebuilding, Araghchi claimed he was confident Iran's military capacities "are much stronger 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 identified our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the adversary."
He continued: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our atomic expertise, which they intended to eliminate, stays intact. The installations and gear, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is important is the determination of the nation of Iran and then the national cohesion that they sought to undermine, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have developed more resilient, more united, and more supportive of the leadership and the state in the face of this attack."
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