The recent attack occurs immediately after the US nuclear conversations. I will start in April of this year.
Israel seems ready to attack Iran, say US officials and Europe – The New York TimesJune 11
The Israeli attack against Iran could come in a matter of days, Israeli officials and Israeli say – The Wall Street JournalJune 12
Iran bends while the United States points out that Israel could attack despite nuclear conversations – Al JazeeraJune 12
Trump says he doesn’t want Israel to attack Iran, but the strike “could happen” well “ – The times of IsraelJune 12
In a fairly anticipated movement, Israel launched on Friday attacks on panoramic scale on Iran, claiming that it was heading to nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders. In a message, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were the beginning of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon.
Iranian media and witnesses reported explosions, even at the country’s main uranium enrichment center in Natanz, Reuters reported. The body of the Revolutionary Guard Elite of Iran said that its main commander, Hossein Salami, was killed, and the state media reported that the headquarters of the unit in Tehran had been beaten. Six Iranian nuclear scientists were killed, Iranian state media reported.
In response, Iran launched around 100 drones to the Israeli territory, which Israel was working to intercept, according to Tel Aviv. Around 0800 GMT, the Israeli media said an order had risen to remain close to protected areas, suggesting that the majority or all drones had been neutralized.
Separately, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the United States was not involved in the strikes and Tel Aviv had acted unilaterally.
The United States and other European countries had already warned about such an attack by Israel in Iran, which has once again revived tensions in the Middle East. In fact, on Wednesday, the United States withdrew Iraq diplomats and authorized the voluntary departure of their military family members in the region.
These developments come in the context of the nuclear conversations of Iran-United States, which, according to a New York Times Report, revolve around the Uranium near the Tehran bomb and Washington’s goal to ensure that Iran enriches any uranium on its ground.
Uranium enrichment is a process used to make fuel for nuclear plants, but can also produce material for an atomic eye.
Negotiations or bombs
In April, the United States and Iran began high -level nuclear conversations with Oman as intermediary. It was the first commitment between the two countries in almost seven years, when President Donald Trump took the United States from the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Essentially, the 2015 agreement imposed restrictions on the Iran nuclear program, which makes it impossible for the country to produce a bomb, in exchange for the lifting of the United States and international sanctions against it. But Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement with the world powers in 2018 and reimposed the sanctions that have paralyzed Iran’s economy. Tehran reacted a year later by violating the nuclear curbs of the agreement.
In March 2025, after assuming the presidency for the second time, Trump said he had written a letter to Iran, pressing it to open conversations about the prevention of nuclear weapons or face possible military actions. In response, Iran had rejected Trump’s demands regarding direct negotiations and, instead, left the door open to indirect discussions.
A few days later, however, Trump told the journalists of the Oval office that Washington began direct conversations with Iran. The announcement was made during conversations with Netanyahu, who was visiting the United States at that time.
The talks
The first round of conversations between the United States and Iran took place on April 12 in Muscat and was described as “constructive.” The approach to the conversations was in “Descale regional tensions, exchanges of prisoners and limited agreements to relieve sanctions in exchange for controlling Iran’s nuclear program” Reuters He had reported.
US officials and Iranian met again for the second time on April 19, this time in Rome. Speaking on state television after the conversations, Iranian Foreign Minister had described them as useful and made in a constructive atmosphere. There were no immediate comments on the United States after conversations.
The third round of conversations was held again in Oman, this time, including a technical level meeting between experts from both sides. Only one day before the conversations, Trump, in an interview with Time The magazine had said that “it would prefer a treatment than the bombs that are eliminated.”
The same week, Washington had also announced new sanctions aimed at the Iranian oil network, a movement described as “hostile” by Tehran. Separately, the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, had warned Iran to face consequences to support Houthis, a military organization of Zaydi Shia Activa in Yemen.
Subsequently, the fourth round of conversations was postponed, scheduled for May 3 in Rome. “American sanctions to Iran during nuclear conversations are not helping the parties to solve the nuclear dispute through diplomacy,” ” Reuters He had summoned an Iranian official who said. Meanwhile, Oman had declared that the conversations were being reprogrammed due to “logistic reasons.”
On the same day, in an interview with Fox NewsThe United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had said that Iran had to “move away” from uranium enrichment and long -range missile development, and should allow US inspectors to enter their facilities.
“If you have the ability to enrich 3.67 percent, it only has a few weeks to reach 20PC, then 60PC, and then the 80 and 90PC you need for a weapon,” said Rubio.
Treatment or not treatment?
The fourth round of the American conversations of Iran ended up taking place, again in Muscat on May 12. The meeting was held the same week as President Trump made his visit to the Middle East, the Associated press reported.
Iran described the negotiations, which lasted three hours, “difficult but useful.” On the other hand, an American official told him AP: “An agreement was reached to advance with conversations to continue working through technical elements.”
Three days later, on May 15, Trump announced that the United States was very close to ensuring a nuclear agreement with Iran. “We are in very serious negotiations with Iran for long -term peace,” he said on his Gulf tour, according to a report of the shared pool of AFP.
“We are coming to make a deal without having to do this … there [are] Two steps to do this, there is a very, very pleasant step and is the violent step, but I don’t want to do it in the second way, ”he added.
However, an Iranian source said that, although Tehran was prepared to offer what he considered concessions, “the problem is that the United States is not willing to raise important sanctions in return.”
Regardless, the fifth round of conversations took place between the two countries of Rome on May 23, where “some but not conclusive progress,” said Mediator Oman. Meanwhile, Iran said he had received “elements” from a proposal from the United States, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi later said the text contained “ambiguities.”
A few days after the fifth round of conversations, the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a speech pronounced on the commemoration of the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic, promised that Tehran would not abandon his enrichment of uranium, a key demand in the United States proposal.
“Independence means not waiting for the green light of the United States and the tastes of the United States,” he said, adding that the proposal of the United States was “100pc against” the ideals of the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Tensions rise
From now on, a strip began and loosen between Iran and the United States.
On June 9, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it would soon submit a counterproposal for a nuclear agreement to the United States through the Mediator Oman. Declared that the US proposal had not been able to include Tehran’s key demand to raise sanctions.
But despite the disagreement, President Trump at the beginning of this week said that the conversations would continue between the two countries. “They are just asking for things you can’t do. They don’t want to give up what they have to give up,” Trump told White House journalists, according to Reuters. “They seek enrichment. We cannot have enrichment.”
In addition, he said that Iran was the main theme of a telephone conversation he had on Monday with Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu’s office said the president had told him that conversations with Iran would continue at the end of the week. Shortly after, Oman announced that the sixth round of American conversations in Iran will take place on Sunday.
But then it happened a lot in just one day, on June 12. Trump warned that a “mass conflict” could explode in the Middle East. “I don’t want to say imminent, but it seems that it could happen,” Trump said in response to a question of an Israeli attack against Iran, AP reported.
At the same time, the president of the United States also said that he was urging Netanyahu to avoid taking measures at the moment and then turned to social networks to say that “the complete administration has directed to negotiate with Iran.”
On the same day, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued its strongest condemnation in Iran in 20 years, saying that the country had continued enriching uranium at levels close to weapons and had not fulfilled its obligations of nuclear non -proliferation. After this, Iran said that a third nuclear enrichment installation had been built and activated.
A few hours after the events, Israel attacked Iranian nuclear objectives, and Netanyahu says that the strikes would continue while “eliminating this threat” would be needed.
Image of heading: The satellite image of brochure provided by Maxar Technologies and taken on February 12, 2025 shows a general description of Isfahan’s enrichment installation in Iran. – Reuters
