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jameshilliardtoday at 9:07 AM9 repliesview on HN

It was pretty obvious that if the negotiations failed that the US would respond by attacking Iran. Iran didn't seem willing to give up their nuclear weapons program regardless of the quite predictable consequences.


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mullingitovertoday at 11:17 AM

I doubt the negotiations were in good faith, probably just a political 'see, we tried' gesture full of deal-breaker bad faith proposals. I think the plan all along has been to attack, probably for more than a year.

You don't go and rename a whole federal department to 'Department of War' when you don't intend to get into wars.

no-name-heretoday at 9:20 AM

  1. The U.S. and Iran had already negotiated and signed a nuclear agreement between our countries but Trump reneged on the already-negotiated agreement.
  2. Trump claimed that his previous attacks on Iran within the last year “completely and totally obliterated” their nuclear program, “obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before” - both direct Trump quotes. Trump was quite clear that Iran’s nuclear program had already been destroyed like nothing had ever been destroyed before.
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bambaxtoday at 9:49 AM

What's predictable is, if you don't have nuclear weapons, you get attacked. Ask Ukraine. If I were a small country (any country for that matter) the first order of business would be to build myself nuclear weapons now.

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2Gkashmiritoday at 10:17 AM

there is news iran accepted to zero nuclear enrichment so what are you saying?

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Hikikomoritoday at 10:06 AM

Did Israel bomb the Iranian negotiators again?

netsharctoday at 10:38 AM

They were literally in the middle of negotiations, but Trump started the war anyway...

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coffinbirthtoday at 9:20 AM

It was Trump who cancelled to JCPOA. Also, sending Witkoff and Kushner as negotiators is already an obvious sign the US is dishonest about preventing conflicts through diplomacy, otherwise they would send experienced diplomats. It is really the US Epstein Class Deep State government to blame here.

They could have named the DOD the "Department Of Peace", instead they called it the "Department Of War", showing their true face and trajectory.

At this point it is really the people of the US to rise up and implement a Regime Change from within to change things for the better.

po_ta_totoday at 9:19 AM

You believe everything the US says? lol

lyu07282today at 9:15 AM

You all just keep lying endlessly, I think most people get it at this point. Iran was prepared to go further than the JCPOA, it was never enough because it was never about nuclear weapons.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/peace-within-reach-...

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