Iran is ready to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States on condition that it is treated with "respect" and "honor", Iran's foreign minister has declared.
The Iranian diplomat declared solely negotiations produced results, and shared recent overtures had been made by mediators to restart discussions with the American leadership. He asserted Iran had zero secret atomic facilities, and Tehran could not yet allow the global atomic watchdog to visit attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.
The foreign minister is walking a challenging course since Iran wishes not to be perceived to be operating from a situation of weakness, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had arisen more resilient in military terms and emotionally from the coordinated strike on its atomic facilities in June.
He was speaking at a security conference in Tehran where he restated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to enrich uranium within its borders that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the impasse in the previous talks.
The earlier sessions of negotiations between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and bitter end on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, targeted Iranian nuclear sites in a 12-day war that concluded with Donald Trump declaring the locations had been obliterated. Afterward, EU nations employed their privilege to restore global restrictions, but Iran insists they have not had a major impact.
Iranian officials said they felt they had reached a "perfect agreement" to the uranium processing matter in earlier negotiations, when it was agreed an domestic cooperative with Washington's engagement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to declare success since home-based processing would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was solely for peaceful purposes.
It had not been settled in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could work on Iranian soil, but that was a reasonable assumption of the partnership suggestion. Diplomats asserted on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with the US representative Steve Witkoff only for the agreement to fall apart due to "spoilers in Washington".
Iran's diplomats declared the consortium offer was now no longer available, but it seems quite possible the suggestion could be resurrected in certain ways if discussions resume.
The US president last week claimed he had been getting signals that Iran sought to reopen negotiations, but in private Iranian officials claim they are not yet receiving coherent offers from America either explicitly or from significant local go-betweens, such as the Qatari government, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and the Saudi kingdom. The Iranian foreign ministry has been criticized of passivity in the wake of the US president's straightforward manner, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.
In his remarks to the conference, designed to paint the US as a dominant force that misuses the notion of international law, Araghchi said the 12-day war revealed the conflict could not be resolved by combat operations. He stated the strikes started with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an complete request for a truce.
Iran is assured the first strikes by Israel were executed with complete American awareness and collaboration, making confidence difficult to rebuild.
The foreign minister declared: "Tehran was not the one that had abandoned diplomacy; it was America and the European states that had always attempted to dictate their demands during the negotiations. Diplomacy can still be alive and stays the final solution to address disputes, but its criteria, rules and tenets must be respected."
"If they talk to the Iranian people with the approach of dignity and honor, they will receive a answer in the equivalent tone."
In what is portrayed by Iranian officials as the battle of recovery and recovery, the foreign minister said he was confident Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. All our capabilities have been reestablished. We gained many lessons from this engagement; we have come to know our own weaknesses and the weaknesses of the opponent."
He stated: "We managed to survive this conflict. Our nuclear technology, which they aimed to destroy, stays intact. The installations and machinery, if eliminated, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the determination of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they sought to undermine, but were unable to break. The citizens of Tehran have developed more powerful, more cohesive, and more endorsing of the administration and the state in the aftermath of this invasion."
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