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Trump Officials Outline Why They Decided to Bomb Iran

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​WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided negotiations would go nowhere with Iranian officials after Tehran’s “clever” negotiators “procrastinated” and masked their true nuclear capabilities and goals, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

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Trump insists he struck Iran on his own terms

President Donald Trump and his team scrambled Tuesday to reclaim the narrative on why he decided to attack Iran, after his top diplomat suggested the US struck only after learning of an imminent Israeli strike.

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There were negotiations that the U.S. presents as attempts in good faith. But, according to three top Trump administration officials, there came a point where Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the president’s envoys, concluded that Tehran was using the process to buy time. “From there, they say, Donald Trump decided to move into the military phase.” “Iran promised to deliver a draft agreement to us in five or six days, but it never arrived. For u…

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NBC News broadcast shows Trump's announcement of the Iran attack from the White House (Symbolic image) (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Getty Images US President Donald Trump declared on March 3 that the United States and Israel attacked Iran because the Islamic Republic "intended to attack first." Trump claimed to have received intelligence information during negotiations with Tehran and argued that Iran's military capabilities had been …

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Roll Call broke the news in Washington, United States on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
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