The Death Knell for a Revived Nuclear Deal With Iran

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Iran has brought online new faster centrifuges, which have hugely expanded its enrichment capacity. David Albright estimates that Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon in just 12 days. But would Mr Trump no longer in office, does President Biden have any plans to recreate some version of that previous deal? Some experts say the real death knell for a revived nuclear deal with Iran was Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.

Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country’s media—and its economic malaise. Unfettered by the abandoned nuclear deal, Iran is now making its bomb programme unassailable. And bringing the 20th-century idea of “Smell-o-vision” into the 21st.

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