Satellite pictures appear to confirm that Iran is building a nuclear facility in the Zagros Mountains. It seems to be so deep under the ground that it will be invulnerable even to America's most powerful, bunker-busting bomb. The Institute for Science and International Security reckon that the deepest part of the chamber could be used to house advanced centrifuges. They say they could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make Iran capable of producing nuclear weapons.
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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