I’m left scratching my head at Iran’s decision not to build nukes when it was a known thing that Israel and US were baying for Iranian blood. While not an Islamic scholar myself I think that I can come up with a robust argument based on the Quran why it is allowed to take an eye for an eye. Meaning that if the enemy is threatening to slaughter your civilians then you should be able to do the same to them. Unfortunately, based on the flawed interpretation of one man Iran is seeing its little girls massacred and their country destroyed.
Then the peace talks. I think that one purpose for them was for Israel and US to get confirmation that Iran really does not have nukes. The more the Iranians tried to convince the US that they really didn’t have nukes the more likely it became that Trump would order the attack.