Iran is willing to restart nuclear negotiations with Washington provided that it is approached with "dignity" and "respect", Iran's top diplomat has announced.
Abbas Araghchi said solely negotiations was effective, and revealed new appeals had originated from mediators to reopen discussions with the American leadership. He said Iran possessed no undeclared nuclear sites, and Tehran had not yet reached a point to permit the global atomic watchdog to visit attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.
The foreign minister is treading a difficult route since Iran does not want appear to be operating from a position of weakness, and he emphatically stated that Iran had come out more powerful militarily and psychologically from the joint assault on its atomic facilities in June.
He was talking at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "an absolute privilege to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will always maintain" – the main reason of the deadlock in the previous talks.
The earlier sessions of talks between the US and Iran were brought to an abrupt and hostile termination on 12 June when the Israeli government, with American backing, targeted Iran's enrichment centers in a fortnight-long engagement that concluded with the US president declaring the sites had been eliminated. Subsequently, EU nations employed their privilege to reimpose international penalties, but Iran insists they have not had a substantial consequence.
Iranian officials said they felt they had attained a "ideal resolution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was decided an Iran-based consortium with American involvement could enrich uranium. Both sides would have been able to assert triumph since home-based processing would have persisted and the US could be confident that Iran's enrichment initiative was solely for peaceful purposes.
It had not been settled in the negotiations that Washington's technical specialists could work within Iranian territory, but that was a reasonable assumption of the cooperative offer. Officials claimed repeatedly they had reached agreement with Washington's diplomat the American negotiator only for the agreement to fall apart due to "detractors in America".
Iranian officials declared the cooperative arrangement was now no longer available, but it seems very probable the offer could be resurrected in various formats if discussions restart.
The US president recently said he had been getting signals that Iran desired to restart talks, but privately Iran's diplomats state they are not yet getting coherent offers from America either straightforwardly or from significant local go-betweens, such as Qatar, the Egyptian leadership, Oman and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian foreign ministry has been accused of passivity in the aftermath of Washington's unmediated tactics, but Iran says diplomacy is not part of a spectacle.
In his address to the forum, designed to paint the US as a controlling nation that exploits the idea of worldwide standards, the foreign minister stated the two-week conflict revealed the dispute could not be resolved by military means. He said the assaults commenced with a American requirement for an unconditional Iranian surrender and concluded with an complete request for a ceasefire.
Iran is certain the opening assaults from Tel Aviv were mounted with full US knowledge and coordination, making confidence difficult to rebuild.
Araghchi declared: "It was not Iran that had abandoned negotiations; it was the United States and the Western nations that had consistently sought to dictate their will during the talks. Negotiations can still be viable and stays the final resolution to resolve conflicts, but its criteria, regulations and fundamentals must be followed."
"If they talk to the nation of Iran with the approach of dignity and honor, they will obtain a answer in the identical tone."
In what is portrayed by Iranian officials as the conflict of recovery and reconstruction, Araghchi said he was assured Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Our entire military infrastructure have been restored. We learned numerous insights from this engagement; we have come to know our personal limitations and the weaknesses of the enemy."
He stated: "We managed to survive this engagement. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to obliterate, remains in place. The sites and gear, if destroyed, will be restored; what is important is the resolve of the nation of Iran and then the unity of the country that they targeted, but did not succeed to shatter. The citizens of Tehran have developed more resilient, more cohesive, and more backing of the government and the nation in the aftermath of this assault."
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