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Today we're speaking to journalist Seamus Malakafzali.

He's going to be talking to us about the war that was broken out between Israel and Iran. After Israel recently began raining down rocket strikes on Iran, claiming that it's somehow to do with a nuclear weapons project in Iran.

There seems to be a lot more going on here, though, than that.

America is looking to join.

Many civilians are dead.

Things are looking very bad.

Seamus is going to talk us through it.

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The most useful thing I think to start with would be if you can kind of explain what has actually happened, almost a timeline of events. It already seems to me to feel like

Israel has always been at war with Iran, but this is a little bit, I mean, technically, but this is a

little bit different, right? This is, let's find the mythic WMD's time. Maybe you can explain to us

exactly how this round of fighting kicked off.

The Iranians have been at the negotiating table with the United States for the past month or so,

maybe a couple of months, I'm unsure, but there were at least five rounds of negotiations,

indirect negotiations, in Oman before this.

In those negotiations, there was supposed to be some sort of substantial progress,

but the United States never budged on the idea that Iran should have no uranium enrichment

whatsoever.

Iran obviously said that under the

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