Iran is willing to restart nuclear discussions with Washington on condition that it is approached with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has announced.
The Iranian diplomat declared only diplomacy produced results, and revealed recent overtures had been made by intermediaries to restart talks with the Trump administration. He asserted Iran did not have unreported enrichment locations, and Iran had not yet reached a point to authorize the global atomic watchdog to inspect attacked atomic facilities for security reasons.
Araghchi is treading a challenging path since Iran wishes not to appear to be operating from a position of weakness, and he consistently maintained that Iran had arisen more resilient militarily and psychologically from the Israeli-US attack on its atomic facilities in June.
He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he reaffirmed that Iran had "an absolute privilege to process nuclear material domestically that it will never give up" – the key factor of the deadlock in the earlier negotiations.
The prior phases of negotiations between the United States and Iran were concluded unexpectedly and acrimonious end on 12 June when Israel, with American backing, targeted Tehran's atomic facilities in a 12-day war that ended with Donald Trump claiming the locations had been eliminated. Subsequently, European countries employed their authority to restore international penalties, but Iran asserts they have not had a substantial consequence.
Iranian officials said they felt they had achieved a "magic solution" to the enrichment issue in prior discussions, when it was decided an local partnership with Washington's engagement could enrich uranium. The two nations would have been able to assert triumph since domestic enrichment would have continued and the US could be assured that Iran's nuclear programme was entirely non-military.
It had not been decided in the discussions that Washington's technical specialists could function inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the consortium proposal. Diplomats asserted repeatedly they had secured an understanding with the US representative the US official only for the arrangement to disintegrate due to "detractors in America".
Iran's diplomats stated the partnership proposal was now withdrawn, but it seems quite possible the proposal could be revived in certain ways if discussions resume.
The American leader recently said he had been getting signals that Iran wanted to restart talks, but in private Tehran representatives claim they are not yet obtaining coherent offers from the United States either explicitly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Iran's state department has been charged of inactivity in the face of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran states dialogue is not part of a show.
In his speech to the gathering, intended to paint the US as a dominant force that abuses the concept of international law, Araghchi said the two-week conflict revealed the dispute could not be ended by combat operations. He asserted the assaults commenced with a American requirement for an complete Tehran capitulation and concluded with an absolute demand for a halt to hostilities.
Iran is convinced the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were mounted with complete American awareness and cooperation, making confidence hard to reestablish.
The foreign minister stated: "Tehran was not the one that had deserted negotiations; it was America and the western countries that had repeatedly tried to impose their will during the discussions. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the final answer to address conflicts, but its standards, guidelines and principles must be adhered to."
"If they talk to the nation of Iran with the approach of dignity and respect, they will receive a response in the identical approach."
In what is portrayed by Iran's diplomats as the struggle of recovery and rebuilding, the foreign minister said he was certain Iran's military capacities "have significantly improved than before 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We learned 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 planned to eliminate, stays intact. The installations and equipment, if destroyed, will be reconstructed; what is crucial is the resolve of the Iranian people and then the social solidarity that they aimed at, but did not succeed to destroy. The nation of Iran have become more powerful, more cohesive, and more backing of the leadership and the nation in the aftermath of this invasion."
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