Talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and key European foreign ministers ended Friday 3rd March 2006 without a breakthrough on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the German Foreign Ministry office said. A British official in Vienna told CNN that Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, offered nothing new during the session, and that the European delegation reminded him that Tehran must stop uranium enrichment on its soil and come clean about its program.
Almost exactly twenty years later Ali Larijani was targeted by Israeli military strikes in an ongoing military operation that sought once and for all to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions and subjugate the tyrannical regime.
Ali Larijani was a longtime Iranian political insider who had an important role following the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei on the 28th February 2026.
Taking up the role as secretary of Iran's National Security Council in 2005, Larijani's role was to draw up nuclear and other policies by Khamenei. He left the post in 2007.
In March 2025, US president Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran seeking to reopen nuclear weapons negotiations. The response from the supreme leader was stark. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later said, "Some bullying governments insist on negotiations not to resolve issues but to impose their own expectations," which was seen as in response to the letter. Soon after in late March 2025, Larijani said Iran would have no choice but to develop nuclear weapons if attacked by the United States, Israel or its allies.
On the 5th August 2025, Larijani was appointed by President Masoud Pezeshkian to become secretary of the Supreme National Security Council for a second time. Since January 2026 Larijani was the de facto leader of Iran and remained so as the supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was targeted and his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei was believed seriously injured.
However, on the 17th March Larijani's career came to an abrupt end after he was targeted by an Israeli strike. It remains to be seen whether Iran's nuclear ambitions ended with the death of one of the country's key protagonists.
Larajani's demise cannot be underestimated. He has been front and centre of the Iranian power base for at least 20 years. He has obfuscated and impeded all efforts by the West to temper Iran's nuclear ambitions.
And it's those ambitions that are behind the reasoning of the allied US/Israeli military operation.
There are indeed many that have seriously questioned the US initiated attack on the regime, asking where the evidence concerning Iran's nuclear ambitions.
While no hard evidence has been presented to the world, all the signs indicate that Iran was pursuing to enrich weapons grade Uranium and build a bomb. Should it have succeeded, the West, and Israel in particular would face an existential threat.
Iran has made clear with its continued rhetoric that it sought the demise of the Israeli state and the US with chants of "Death to America" and anti-Zionist slogans.
Those that have called for the US and Israel to take a step back have been likened to Neville Chamberlain, who historically failed to see the threat that Hitler and Nazi Germany posed.
How long was the West, Israeli, or indeed their allies supposed to wait? Until Iran declared it had a bomb? Or until an orange glow and a mushroom cloud rose over Tel Aviv or a Western European capital?
What many appear to have failed to appreciate is that the Iranian leadership have, over the past forty years, funded an asymmetrical war on the West and its assets by arming Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
The destruction and dismantling of the Iranian regime was going to happen sooner or later. But perhaps better sooner, than after their perceived ambitions were realised.
Of course, there is a slim chance as some believe, that it may already be too late and that Iran had already built a viable atomic device. If true there may well be an imminent threat levelled against the West. This could be behind the reluctance of many European countries wanting to become involved in Trump's war, not least because of a concern that such action could light a fuse of home grown Islamic terrorist attacks.
This is a real and probable threat. However, ignoring Iran and hoping the problem would quietly go away was only ever going to delay the inevitable.
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Almost exactly twenty years later Ali Larijani was targeted by Israeli military strikes in an ongoing military operation that sought once and for all to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions and subjugate the tyrannical regime.
Ali Larijani was a longtime Iranian political insider who had an important role following the killing of Supreme Leader Khamenei on the 28th February 2026.
Taking up the role as secretary of Iran's National Security Council in 2005, Larijani's role was to draw up nuclear and other policies by Khamenei. He left the post in 2007.
In March 2025, US president Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran seeking to reopen nuclear weapons negotiations. The response from the supreme leader was stark. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later said, "Some bullying governments insist on negotiations not to resolve issues but to impose their own expectations," which was seen as in response to the letter. Soon after in late March 2025, Larijani said Iran would have no choice but to develop nuclear weapons if attacked by the United States, Israel or its allies.
On the 5th August 2025, Larijani was appointed by President Masoud Pezeshkian to become secretary of the Supreme National Security Council for a second time. Since January 2026 Larijani was the de facto leader of Iran and remained so as the supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was targeted and his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei was believed seriously injured.
However, on the 17th March Larijani's career came to an abrupt end after he was targeted by an Israeli strike. It remains to be seen whether Iran's nuclear ambitions ended with the death of one of the country's key protagonists.
Larajani's demise cannot be underestimated. He has been front and centre of the Iranian power base for at least 20 years. He has obfuscated and impeded all efforts by the West to temper Iran's nuclear ambitions.
And it's those ambitions that are behind the reasoning of the allied US/Israeli military operation.
There are indeed many that have seriously questioned the US initiated attack on the regime, asking where the evidence concerning Iran's nuclear ambitions.
While no hard evidence has been presented to the world, all the signs indicate that Iran was pursuing to enrich weapons grade Uranium and build a bomb. Should it have succeeded, the West, and Israel in particular would face an existential threat.
Iran has made clear with its continued rhetoric that it sought the demise of the Israeli state and the US with chants of "Death to America" and anti-Zionist slogans.
Those that have called for the US and Israel to take a step back have been likened to Neville Chamberlain, who historically failed to see the threat that Hitler and Nazi Germany posed.
How long was the West, Israeli, or indeed their allies supposed to wait? Until Iran declared it had a bomb? Or until an orange glow and a mushroom cloud rose over Tel Aviv or a Western European capital?
What many appear to have failed to appreciate is that the Iranian leadership have, over the past forty years, funded an asymmetrical war on the West and its assets by arming Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.
The destruction and dismantling of the Iranian regime was going to happen sooner or later. But perhaps better sooner, than after their perceived ambitions were realised.
Of course, there is a slim chance as some believe, that it may already be too late and that Iran had already built a viable atomic device. If true there may well be an imminent threat levelled against the West. This could be behind the reluctance of many European countries wanting to become involved in Trump's war, not least because of a concern that such action could light a fuse of home grown Islamic terrorist attacks.
This is a real and probable threat. However, ignoring Iran and hoping the problem would quietly go away was only ever going to delay the inevitable.
tvnewswatch, London, UK
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