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Tehran is ready to resume nuclear talks with the United States provided that it is handled with "dignity" and "honor", Tehran's foreign minister has declared.

Abbas Araghchi declared only diplomacy produced results, and disclosed recent overtures had come from intermediaries to resume negotiations with the American leadership. He said Iran had zero unreported enrichment locations, and Iran was not yet able to permit the global atomic watchdog to inspect attacked atomic facilities for protective measures.

Walking a Difficult Path

The foreign minister is navigating a challenging route since Iran aims to avoid appear to be proceeding from a position of weakness, and he insisted repeatedly that Iran had come out stronger defensively and psychologically from the coordinated strike on its nuclear sites in June.

He was addressing at a defense forum in Tehran where he reiterated that Iran had "a fundamental entitlement to refine atomic fuel on home soil that it will always maintain" – the key factor of the stalemate in the earlier negotiations.

Prior Talks Abruptly Terminated

The earlier sessions of discussions between the United States and Iran were ended suddenly and bitter conclusion on 12 June when Israel, with US support, targeted Tehran's atomic facilities in a two-week conflict that culminated with the American leader declaring the locations had been destroyed. Following this, EU nations employed their authority to restore global restrictions, but Iran asserts they have not had a substantial consequence.

Ideal Resolution Proposed

Iranian officials claimed they felt they had reached a "magic solution" to the uranium processing matter in previous talks, when it was agreed an Iran-based consortium with Washington's engagement could refine atomic fuel. Both sides would have been able to declare success since domestic enrichment would have persisted and the US could be certain that Iran's enrichment initiative was exclusively peaceful.

It had not been decided in the talks that Washington's technical specialists could operate inside Iran, but that was a natural consequence of the partnership suggestion. Officials asserted on multiple occasions they had reached agreement with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff only for the agreement to fall apart due to "opponents in the US".

Present Situation

Iranian officials stated the partnership proposal was now off the table, but it seems very probable the suggestion could be resurrected in various formats if talks resume.

The US president in recent days stated he had been obtaining communications that Iran wanted to reopen negotiations, but in private Iran's diplomats say they are not yet receiving consistent overtures from Washington either straightforwardly or from important Middle Eastern intermediaries, such as the Qatari government, Egypt, the Omani authorities and Saudi Arabia. The Tehran's diplomatic corps has been charged of inactivity in the face of Trump's direct instinctive approach, but Tehran says diplomacy is not part of a performance.

Diplomatic Position

In his address to the forum, designed to paint the US as a dominant force that misuses the notion of global regulations, Araghchi declared the 12-day war demonstrated the conflict could not be settled by combat operations. He stated the strikes began with a US demand for an complete Tehran capitulation and ended with an complete request for a ceasefire.

Iran is convinced the initial Israeli attacks were executed with complete American awareness and cooperation, making trust difficult to reestablish.

Negotiations Stays the Ultimate Resolution

Araghchi said: "It was not Iran that had deserted negotiations; it was America and the western countries that had always tried to dictate their will during the negotiations. Dialogue can still be viable and continues the final answer to settle disagreements, but its requirements, rules and fundamentals must be respected."

"In case they talk to the Iranian people with the language of dignity and respect, they will obtain a response in the equivalent language."

Restoration and Rebuilding

In what is portrayed by Tehran representatives as the struggle of repair and reconstruction, the foreign minister said he was confident Iran's security strengths "are much stronger than preceding 13 or 14 June of this year. Every aspect of our defense have been rebuilt. We gained multiple understandings from this engagement; we have discovered our own weaknesses and the weaknesses of the adversary."

He stated: "We successfully passed this conflict. Our enrichment knowledge, which they planned to obliterate, remains in place. The installations and gear, if damaged, will be reconstructed; what is essential is the resolve of the Iranian people and then the national cohesion that they sought to undermine, but failed to break. The nation of Iran have developed more powerful, more integrated, and more endorsing of the administration and the state in the face of this assault."