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Trump's threats and nuclear negotiations: How did the crisis in Iran escalate?
2026-02-28 17:14:06 / BOTA
The reason for the US and Israeli attack on Iran will be the subject of fierce debate in the coming hours and days.
Trump initially threatened to bomb Iran last month as security forces brutally suppressed anti-government protests, killing thousands of people.
But since then, his focus has largely shifted to Iran's nuclear program, although he has not fully explained why the issue has become an emergency requiring the use of military action.
For decades, the US and Israel have accused Iran of trying to secretly build nuclear weapons.
Iran has consistently denied that it is seeking a bomb, saying its program is solely for peaceful purposes, although the country is the only non-nuclear state to have enriched uranium to a near-military level.
Iran said enrichment activity had stopped after nuclear facilities were hit by the US during the war with Israel last year, although inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have not been allowed access to the damaged sites.
President Trump has reiterated that the facilities were "destroyed" during the attacks.
Three rounds of talks between the US and Iran on a deal took place this month, and further negotiations were expected next week.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, who has been mediating, met with US officials in Washington yesterday, a day after discussions in Geneva, in what could be seen as a last-ditch effort to prevent an attack.
In an interview with CBS News, Albusaidi said that an agreement was "within reach" and that "significant progress" had been made in the talks, asking for more time for negotiations.
Discussing publicly for the first time the details of Iran's proposal, he mentioned Iran's offer that it would never again have an enriched uranium stockpile, a commitment to an irreversible reduction of the existing stockpile, and their verification by the IAEA.
Albusaidi described the proposals as better than the nuclear deal signed with Iran under the Obama administration in 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Trump withdrew from the agreement during his first term in the White House, in 2018.
Before the talks, Iran had rejected US demands to discuss limits on its ballistic missile program, as well as to stop supporting proxies in the region, saying these demands were violations of its sovereignty.
Albusaidi said Iran was "open to discussing everything," and that non-nuclear issues could be discussed separately with Iran's neighbors.
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