On Wednesday, President Trump met with Iranian leaders to sign an initial memorandum of understanding towards ending the months-long war. In a press conference after the signing, Trump was triumphant.
Specifically, he touted the deal’s firmness on one of the US’s key priorities: ensuring that Iran can never develop a nuclear weapon.
Whilst Iran has agreed to “not procure or develop nuclear weapons," there are many questions left unanswered. What does it actually look like to police the weapons programmes?
Today, Asma Khalid from The Global Story podcast speaks to someone intimately familiar with the weapons inspection process: President of the Institute for Science and International Security, David Albright.
In the 1990s, Albright worked in Iraq with the UN, investigating the nation’s weapons programme under Sadaam Hussein.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Can Trump stop Iran having a nuclear weapon?
07:42 Iraq and the question of nuclear weapons
10:00 How often did nuclear inspections take place in Iran?
14:33 What’s in the peace deal about nuclear weapons?
18:14 What is nuclear dust?
