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They said that, but there is also no evidence of them negotiating in good faith. Showing up to the table and just dragging the process out for years isn’t negotiating, it’s an act.

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There is no evidence that they acted in bad faith as well, most of us don't have access to the briefings of those negotiations

But here is what we know:

* US acted in bad faith - because it planned attack in around December 2025

* Oman, mediator of negotiations told they were almost there with negotiations and Iran mostly agreed to conditions and boom, next day it got bombed: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/peace-within-reach-...

This is how long negotiations took on the last agreement. 20 months. But I guess the current administration doesn't have that kind of patience and would rather blow them up instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

We'll see if that works or wether another jihadist regime rises from their ashes.

There is evidence they negotiated in good-faith because they deliberately involved a third-party as a mediator. Oman, who was involved in the mediation said a nuclear deal was nearly done (where the Iranians agreed to completely scrap the Obama nuclear deal for a new Trump nuclear treaty) when the US changed its mind and decided to attack them.

Israel bombed. US merely is merely a Buffon.

It took years to negotiate the nuclear deal that Obama got, it was productive, it was good enough to keep nuclear proliferation in check.

Comes dumbo and rips that off, goes back to "deal making" without any diplomacy, bomb them twice during the negotiation process after ripping off the previous deal.

Seems like the whole new negotiations from Trump's admin was just putting up an act after all... Quite disgusting.

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