Donald Trump’s central war aim in Iran is to stop the country’s nuclear-weapons programme. But the conflict may have aggravated the nuclear threat. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, sits down with David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, to discuss the current state of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme and what—if anything— could stop the regime from building a bomb.
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00:00 - The current state of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme
02:32 - Was Iran close to getting a bomb before the war?
04:30 - Will the Iranian regime sprint for a bomb?
07:09 - Can Iran’s nuclear programme be bombed out of existence?
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